![]() Jagannath, a research scholar who has used ORI resources for decades, said there were two fires sparked by faulty wiring at the institute in 19. “Without air-conditioning, dehumidifiers and regular coating with citronella oil, the original palm leaves on which the Arthashastrawas inscribed will be lost to us," lamented Krishnaiah. “It has survived from the second century, but now the palm leaves are falling to pieces," said Krishnaiah. ![]() The Arthashastra also dethroned Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, a 16th-century work, as the world’s oldest treatise on political philosophy. Until the re-discovery of the document, the British Raj believed India’s ideas on governance and military administration were drawn from the Greeks. Shamashastri transcribed the Arthashastra onto fresh palm leaves and published it in 1909. The institute has been part of the University of Mysore from 1916, and is home to about 70,000 rare palm-leaf manuscripts. Rudrapatna Shamashastri, a Sanskrit scholar and librarian, discovered the original Arthashastra in 1905 among the mounds of palm leaf documents lying in the institute, which was founded by Mysore’s Wodeyar kings in 1891. After the decline of the Mauryan Empire, the document was lost. ![]() Its author, Kautilya-also known as Chanakya- was prime minister to Chandragupta, the first of the Mauryan rulers. Scholars say it was composed around the second century BCE. ![]()
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