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

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The Nîti literature of Burma is of a different
character. In the Tibetan, however, where we find also
quasi-independent works on government, there are
translations of Sanskrit texts in verse ascribed (1) to
Masuraksha and (2) to Nâgârjuna. The Javanese has,
besides a professed translation of the Kâmandakî
Nîtisâra, also some minor tracts, perhaps representing the
late moral anthology which bears the name of Cânakya.
If the short text which is here edited were represen-
tative of the ancient Bârhaspatya doctrine, it would have
a considerable interest. Unfortunately, this is far from
being the case. It professes, indeed, like the Brihaspati
Smriti, to be dictated to Indra by his Purohita. But
what follows is a brief and strangely disjointed exposit-
ion of the subject. Its date, as it stands, seems from
an apparent mention of the Yâdvas of Devagiri to be
brought down at least to the twelfth century A.D. It
refers, in passages which, however, may be suspected
of interpolation (see notes to II. 8–35, III. 8–16, 33–7,
119–33), to the sects of the Shaivas, Vaishnavas, and
Shâktas and names their sacred domains (kshetras),
some of which may not be ancient. It does not seem to
contain the matter indicated by the citations in the
Arthashâstra of Kautilya (pp. 6, 29, 63, 177, 192 of
the edition). It displays some grammatical peculiarities,
e.g. neuters for masculines (which may sometimes be
explained as accusatives obscured by the elliptical
sûtra style and vice versa), accusative after vi-shvas
(which, however, occurs elsewhere), and even the forms
samgrahet (which should perhaps be samgrahayet, as,
the correct samgrihnîyât occurs several times) and divyât