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The Arthashastra

Kautilya

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 300 BCE
Originally in
Originally in Sanskrit
Pages
Pages 850

Honey on the tip of the tongue cannot help but be tasted, Kautilya writes of the man who handles the king's money, and a fish moving underwater cannot be seen to drink. Then he sets out the forty ways a treasury is robbed, and the spies to place on the robber.

In the happiness of his subjects lies his happiness; in their welfare his welfare;
The Arthashastra, Kautilya

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