बार्हस्पत्य सूत्र / अर्थशास्त्र (महर्षि बृहस्पति - प्राचीन दण्डनीति, राजधर्म एवं कूटनीति सटीक)

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centuries B. c. the subject of royal policy was a recogniz-
ed topic. The schools are the Mânavas, Bârhaspatyas,
Aushanasas, Ambhîyas (no doubt, of Taxila ) and Parâ-
sharas,and the individuals Bhâradvâja, Vishâlâksha, Pi-
shuna, Kaunpadanta, Vâtavyâdhi and Bâhudantî-putra.
It is, therefore, of interest to find that in the account
of the science occurrig in the Mahâbhârata (cited by
Prof. Jacobi, 1911, p.973)* some of these names occur.
There we are told that the founder of the science was
Brahmâ himself, whose work was abridged by Shiva in a
treatise entitled Vaishâlâksha, and then further abridged
in succession by Indra, who compiled the Bâhudantaka,
Brihaspati the Bârhaspatya, and Kavi ( Ushanas ),
the (Aushanasa) treatise-of which the last-mentioned is
named along with those of Manu, Indra, Bhâradvāja,
and Gaurashiras in another passage of the same book
(c. 58, 2-3), also in 1. 98, 36 and elsewhere in the lite-
rature(e.g. sâma aushanasa in the Jânakī harana, x.26).
†एतत्ते राजधर्म्माणं नवनीतं युधिष्ठिर ।
बृहस्पतिर्हि भगवान्नायं धर्मं प्रशंसति ॥ १ ॥
विशालाक्षश्च भगवान्काव्यश्चैव महातपाः ।
सहस्राक्षो महेन्द्रश्च तथा प्राचेतसो मनुः ॥ २ ॥
भरद्वाजश्च भगवाँस्तथा गौरशिरा मुनिः ।
राजशास्त्र प्रणेतारो ब्राह्मणा ब्रह्मवादिनः ॥ ३ ॥ शा० अ० ५७

• Also cited by Dr G. Oppert in his Weapons, Army
  Organisation And Political Maxims of the Ancient Hindus,
  1880, p 35. B.Datta.
  † I have introduced here the original shlokas for the
  benefit of the reader. B. Datta.