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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