The Nitisara by Kamandaki: Sanskrit Text with English Translation

Language: Sanskrit Text with English Translation
Pages: 472


About the Author

Edited by: Raja Rajendra Lala Mitra

English Translated by: Dr. Sisir Kumar Mitra

The Nitisara of Kamandaki a post Maurya treatise narrating the elements of polity divided in twenty sargas and thirty six prakarans is dependent on the Arthasastra of Kautilya dealing inter alia with theories of social order authority and obligation of the temporal ruler theories of states structure and organs of government principles and policies of government inter state relations functions of envoys ambassadors and spies application of different political expedients varieties of battle arrays attitude towards morality etc.

Raja Rajendra Lala Mitra was the first to edit the text published by the Asiatic society spread over in 5 fascicles between 1849 and 1884. The Raja also undertook the English translation of the text but unfortunately white ants devoured the manuscript.

This revised edition contains an analytical assessment of the treatise and in addition the first ever complete English translation of the text and is expected to be of immense value to the scholars of ancient Indian polity.

 

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Sisir Kumar Mitra (b. 1919) educated at Calcutta an ardent student of ancient Indian History and culture qualified for higher research work and teaching the subject having secured a first class M.A. Degree in 1941. He joined the state education service and for over two decades taught the same subject in the honors course at the government Sanskrit College, Calcutta, Besides being a part time lecturer of the University of Calcutta. Eventually Sisir Kumar was appointed a Reader Department of Ancient Indian History and culture in 1970.

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