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KauTiliiya.artha.zaastra (updated, May 15, 1996)

The text was originally input by Muneo Tokunaga in June 1992; Proofread by
the following members of the Joint Seminar on "Law(dharma) and Society
in Classical India" (coordinated by Y.Ikari at the Institute for Research
in Humanities, Kyoto University) in March 1993: Akihiko Akamatsu, 
Fumio Enomoto, Masato Fujii, Toru Funayama, Toshifumi Goto,
Takao Hayashi, Yasuke Ikari, Katsuhiko Kamimura, Hideaki Nakatani, 
Jun Takashima, Michio Yano, and Nobuyuki Watase.

The e-text is based on R. P. Kangle's edition:
The KautTitiiya ArthazAstra, Acritical Edtion with a Glossary,
Second edition, University of Bombay 1969.


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Text Input System 
  (1)	Sanskrit characters which should bear diacritical marks
	when Romanized have been input mostly by capitals.  
	
	vowels:     a, aa, i, ii, u, uu, R, RR, L, e, ai, o, au
	gutturals:  k, kh, g, gh, G
	palatals:   c, ch, j, jh, J
	linguals:   T, Th, D, Dh, N
	dentals:    t, th, d, dh, n
	labials:    p, ph, b, bh, m
	semivowels: y, r, l, v
	sibilants:  z, S, s
	aspiration: h
	anusvAra:   M
	visarga:    H


(1) Members of a compound are separated by periods. 
(2) External sandhi is decomposed with ^.
(3) Prose sections are subdivided by a,b,c, etc..

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