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Nitisara (transl. Essence of Statesmanship) or the Nitisara of Kamandaki, is an ancient Indian treatise on politics and statecraft. It was authored by Kamandaka, also known as Kamandaki or Kamandakiya, who was a disciple of Chanakya. It is traditionally dated to the 4th-3rd century BCE,[1] though modern scholarship variously dates it to between the 3rd and 7th centuries CE between Gupta and Harsha period and its in fact a recension based on Sukra Nitisara of 4th century BCE.[2] It contains 19 sections.[1] The work has been dedicated to Chandragupta of Pataliputra.[1] Scholars presume that the work was modelled after the Hitopadesha.[1]
- ^ a b c d Dutt, Manmatha Nath (Ed.). (1896). Kamandakiya Nitisara or The Elements of Polity (PDF). Calcutta: Elysium Press. pp. i–.
- ^ Kaushik Roy (2012). Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge University Press. p. 137. ISBN 9781139576840.