Olivelle: King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India

Olivelle, Patrick [Übers.]:
King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India : Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra / translated with commentary by Patrick Olivelle. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2013 [erschienen: Dezember 2012]. - ca. 784 S.
ISBN 978-0-19-989182-5
US$ 150,00 / £ 95,00
DDC: 320.934; 351.01
-- OUP USA: Dezember 2012 erschienen, OUP UK: Angekündigt für Januar 2013 --

Beschreibung
King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India presents an English translation of Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra (AS.) along with detailed endnotes. When it was discovered in 1923, the AS. was described as perhaps the most precious work in the whole range of Sanskrit literature, an assessment that still rings true. Patrick Olivelle's new translation of this significant text, the first in close to half a century, takes into account a number of important advances in our knowledge of the texts, inscriptions, and archeological and art historical remains from the period in Indian history to which the AS. belongs.
   The AS. is what we would today call a scientific treatise. It codifies a body of knowledge handed down in expert traditions and is specifically interested in two things: first, how a king can expand his territory, keep enemies at bay, enhance his external power, and amass riches; second, how a king can best organize his state bureaucracy to consolidate his internal power, to suppress internal enemies, to expand the economy, to enhance his treasury through taxes, duties, and entrepreneurial activities, to keep law and order, and to settle disputes among his subjects. The AS. stands alone: there is nothing like it before and there is nothing like it after. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Preface
Abbreviations
Note to the Translation
Outline of the Arthaśāstra
Introduction
Translation
Book 1: On the Subject of Training
Book 2: On the Activities of Superintendents
Book 3: On Justices
Book 4: Eradication of Thorns
Book 5: On Secret Conduct
Book 6: Basis of the Circle
Book 7: On the Sixfold Strategy
Book 8: On the Subject of Calamities
Book 9: Activity of a King Preparing to March into Battle
Book 10: On War
Book 11: Conduct toward Confederacies
Book 12: On the Weaker King
Book 13: Means of Capturing a Fort
Book 14: On Esoteric Practices
Book 15: Organization of A Scientific Treatise
Notes
Appendix 1: Fauna and Flora
Appendix 2: Weights and Measures
Appendix 3: Geographical Names
Bibliography

Übersetzer
Patrick Olivelle is Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions at the University of Texas at Austin. Profile page.

Quellen: Oxford University Press (USA); Oxford University Press (UK); WorldCat; Amazon; Library of Congress; OpenISBN; Mitteilung des Übersetzers, Mailing-List "Indology", 14. Dez. 2012
Bildquelle: Oxford University Press (UK)
Bibliographie: [1]

Rückschau
Von Patrick Olivelle haben wir in Indologica bereits die folgenden Werke erfaßt:
1. [21.06.2004] Olivelle: The law code of Manu (2 Titel)
2. [13.01.2005] Olivelle: Manu's Code of Law
3. [28.01.2006] Olivelle: Dharmasutra parallels
4. [30.04.2006] Olivelle: The five discourses on worldly wisdom
5. [17.08.2006] Olivelle: Between the Empires
6. [22.08.2006] Olivelle: Language, texts and society
7. [12.03.2008] Asvaghosa: Life of the Buddha
8. [28.11.2008] Olivelle: Collected Essays 1
9. [28.11.2008] Olivelle: Collected Essays 2
10. [13.11.2009] Olivelle: Dharma
11. [08.02.2010] Asoka
12. [20.02.2010] Law Code of Visnu
13. [25.04.2012] Reimagining Asoka
14. [13.09.2012] Arthaśāstra

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