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 EOONOMIOS IN NOIENT INDIA "Thou art the science of Dialectics, thou art the art four Vedas, anti (Icyeminent etc." three-fold knowledge of the Vw, and thou, too, art thou, too four Vedas, and thou the knowledge o! the art the knowledge of () According to the primeval law-giver M, be well-versed in the (VH. 89), s king ought to followi g ' n scxences :--' "The three-old sacred knowledge of the four Vedas, the primeval science of Government, logic, ethics and Vrt. (J) The qualifications of kings according to the Yajnavalkya-Smriti (1.809-811-817) are that they should be well read in law, logic, the four-fold edic knowledge, polity and r; that they should'try to acquire by four means objects not acquired; keep carefully the acquired ones, multiply the protected ones according to the laws o! political economy and distribute the surplus wealth to worthy persons. the It is zsto=s]]y ]mow= smo=g the Arthazhazta was revealed by Hindus that Vishwakn in various treatises on 64 mechanical rts as exercise them. the all improvement of such has been praised by the Puranas as of a thousand arts, the designer of for the This god orisinator orname.nts, the manufacturer of all sorts of airships,' and a profuse writer of treatises on all aais ancl sciences concerning the production of wealth-works, whose study becomes a fruitl source of livelihood for the whole of mankind. But we have a 'different version o! the beginning of this science in the great work o! Chanakya, the Indian Machiavelli, who was Prime Minister to the most celebrated monarch Sandra- koptas, of world-wide fame, who defeated 8eleukas