![]() It was one of the manuscripts in the library that had been handed over by 'a pandit of the Tanjore district' to the Oriental Library. Other copies of the Arthashastra were discovered later in other parts of India. The manuscript was in the GRANTHA script. He proceeded to translate it into English, publishing it in 1915. He transcribed, edited and published the Sanskrit edition in 1909. In 1905 he discovered the Arthashastra among a heap of manuscripts. Shamasastry, the librarian, examined these fragile manuscripts daily, to determine their contents and catalogue them. It housed thousands of Sanskrit palm-leaf manuscripts. The Oriental Research Institute was set up in 1891, as the Mysore Oriental Library. Image : The original manuscript of Arthashastra. Published by Government Press, Bangalore - 1915 The History of India - By its various Historians.Art and Artists of the Twentieth Century.Astronomy, Ayurveda, Yoga, Science and Mathematics in Ancient India. ![]()
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