BACKGROUND OF CHANAKYA'S " ARATHASHASTRA"

 

kautilya 

 BACKGROUND OF CHANAKYA'S  " ARATHASHASTRA" 

 Assist.Prof- Ganjave Prashant Tukaram

Now when economics is translated as Arathashatra and when we say Arathashatra chanakya comes into the mind "chanakya Arathashatra " or chanakya niti but chanakya writen about economics less and political part is more  in his "Arathashatra " then we understand that kautilya does not interested in marketing , making money out of money , credit creation , capital formation,sales  or business development motives  he more interested in kingship and legal issue ,in chanakya Arathashatra  he concept come around his time that is roughly 2000 year ago Indian throughts is classified into Dharama,Artha,and kama  

•   1)  Dharama is about the good Governance 
•  2)  kama  is about the art and pleasure 



WEALTH DISTRIBUTION IN SOCIETY 

• 3) Artha  is about the economics                                                                                          And  our shastra written  to about it !so there is  Dharamashastra ,Arthashastra,and kamashastra  chanakya becomes very famous because he used the three shastra of his  " Arathashatra" , and is deal with more politics and legal matters than day to day economics .their economics part less and political part is much more. for his  Arathashatra he referring to Brihespati the guru of Devas and he referring to Shukracharya who is the guru of Asuras  so in mythological battle between them is not moral battle ,its  not for good and bad , its for the unequal distribution of wealth among them and this the conflict even in today's society between have and have not , people who have all the wealth with or seem to have  all the power with them and then you have Asuras who feel that the wealth is not properly  distributed so chankya's Arathashatra i a way deals not so much with wealth generation is more wealth distribution and mainly focus on the what is roll of king? and  king shipping he creates an ecosystem where this generation of wealth is properly distributed among the peoples this is Arathashatra does  then he talks about king and sovereignty , good king who enables wealth generation and facilitates fair wealth distribution that the purpose of king  so king isclosely tied with wealth and economics  if king fallows Dharama and is good governance then Lakshmi comes into the kingdom and that is good king   

references:- 

1) Arthaat- Achyaut godbole  
2) Devlok - devdutt pattanaik 
3) Bhatia H.l.:- History of economic thought 
4) Desai S.M :- History of economic thought