I have also asked the vice-chancellor to give ORI more staff with expertise in maintaining and documenting ancient manuscripts. We have sent a proposal to the government for a grant of в‚№3.5 crore. Shivarajappa, director of ORI, said: вЂњA lot of work has to be taken up to revive the original document of the Arthashastra.

They say that ORI does not get enough funding to manage manuscripts, hire more experts and maintain the building.Дr.

вЂњThe Arthashastra and about 70,000 other historic documents and manuscripts could have been reduced to ashes,' he said.Дirectors have improved infrastructure-changing the wiring, shifting the book depot, painting and dust proofing-but preserving the fragile documents was not addressed properly, say research scholars who use the institute. Jagannath, a research scholar who has used ORI resources for decades, said there were two fires sparked by faulty wiring at the institute in 19. вЂњWithout air-conditioning, dehumidifiers and regular coating with citronella oil, the original palm leaves on which the Arthashastrawas inscribed will be lost to us,' lamented Krishnaiah. вЂњIt has survived from the second century, but now the palm leaves are falling to pieces,' said Krishnaiah. The Arthashastra also dethroned Niccolo MachiavelliвЂ™s The Prince, a 16th-century work, as the worldвЂ™s oldest treatise on political philosophy. Until the re-discovery of the document, the British Raj believed IndiaвЂ™s ideas on governance and military administration were drawn from the Greeks. Shamashastri transcribed the Arthashastra onto fresh palm leaves and published it in 1909. The institute has been part of the University of Mysore from 1916, and is home to about 70,000 rare palm-leaf manuscripts. Rudrapatna Shamashastri, a Sanskrit scholar and librarian, discovered the original Arthashastra in 1905 among the mounds of palm leaf documents lying in the institute, which was founded by MysoreвЂ™s Wodeyar kings in 1891. After the decline of the Mauryan Empire, the document was lost. Its author, Kautilya-also known as Chanakya- was prime minister to Chandragupta, the first of the Mauryan rulers. Scholars say it was composed around the second century BCE. The Arthashastra, written in Sanskrit and dating back to the time of the Mauryan Empire, is one of the oldest books on governance, military strategy, politics, economics, justice, and the duties of rulers.

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