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Ep. 440: Who Really Wrote the Arthashastra?
Oct 23, 2020
20:47
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The Arthashastra is famously believed to have been composed by Chanakya, the prime minister of Chandragupta Maurya. But a new wave of scholarship is challenging that idea. Was Chanakya real?
