Cāṇakyarājanītiśāstra, circa 1700-1850.
चाणक्यराजनीतिशास्त्र

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Kauṭalya.

Contributor:

Gāḍagila, Janārdanapanta Bhatu, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Cāṇakyanīti

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Hindu ethics.

Dharma.

Genre:

treatises

watermarks

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Janārdanapanta Gāḍagila (f. 32r), also referred to as Janārdanapanta Bhatu Gāḍagila in Ms. Coll 390, Item 2460. Possibly the same as Janārdana Koṇḍadeva Gāḍagila, former owner of more than 20 other manuscripts in Ms. Coll. 390, University of Pennsylvania.

Physical Description:

1 item (32 leaves) : paper ; 11 x 31 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1559

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Biography/History:

Named Cāṇakya in text (f. 32r); minister in the court of the Guptas.

Summary:

Treatise on ethics and politics and rules of conduct for kings according to dharma.

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 32r).

Written in 8-9 lines per leaf.

32 leaves foliated 1-32, upper left and lower right verso.

Colophon: iti cāṇikye rājanītiśāstre ṣṭamo 'dhyāyaḥ // gāḍagilopanāmajanārdanapaṃtasya idaṃ pustakaṃ // śrīrāmacaṃdra // śrīgopālaṃ bhaja // (f. 32r).

Watermarks of a bull and of three interlocking circles.

Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double red line.

Cited in:

Listed in H.I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 3502 (UP 1559).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1559.

OCLC:

927117443