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'Arthashastra' in poor shape at Mysore library
By H M Aravind and M B Maramkal
Times News - Nov 19, 2011
MYSORE: After ensuring that one of the oldest global treatises on statecraft and economic policy was reinstated for posterity, the Oriental Research Institute (ORI), Mysore, is on the verge of losing one of the earliest available manuscripts of Kautilya's Arthashastra. It's falling victim to maladministration and the vagaries of time.
The discovery of the manuscript of the 4th-century BC work from a heap of palm-leaf manuscripts, by scholar Rudrapatnam Shamasastry who published it in 1909, resulted in historians the world over acknowledging that India did have an enviable textual history.
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Read more : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysore/Arthashastra-in-poor-shape-at-Mysore-library/articleshow/10788176.cms
Very sad...No value for our history
Please work on preserving it !!
What a shame - it could survive 15 centuries without damage, and we do this to it in just one.
Itihas hamare swarth me mit raha he
There are numerous moments/cry from modern historians/politicians/journalistic/(and so called self proclaimed intellectuals) to preserve modern (which is not glorious) history of India but no one(rarely) for actual True history of India. Shame!
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