Re: [IAC#RG] Demonetisation - alleged Quote from Chanakya's Artha Shastra

Dear Sarabjit

Congrats for exposing yet another twitter bhakt mindlessly repeating Goebels drone from Modinama camp.

This IAC mailing list is getting very polluted nowadays, please weed out all these political types who are distracting you, and focus on the IAC's core missions of reforming Hindustan and eliminating corruption.

Raminder

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 6:15 PM, mahendra pratap taneja <manitaneja@hotmail.com> wrote:

I wouldn't invest my time in finding the source code on this one. As you suggest, it has been doing the rounds for a while....perhaps because many are convinced of the purport. The veracity then becomes quite secondary.

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From: indiaresists-request@lists.riseup.net <indiaresists-request@lists.riseup.net> on behalf of Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2016 12:16 PM
To: indiaresists
Subject: [IAC#RG] Demonetisation - alleged Quote from Chanakya's Artha Shastra

 

To:

Rear Admiral (Retd.) Mahendra Taneja

Sir,

You have sent the following message to IAC mailing list, which is in moderation queue and fwd'ed to me for approval by another moderator.

When Mamata Bannerjee, Shiv Sena leaders, Kejriwal and other people are protesting against Demonetisation move of the PM, I am reminded of a famous quote by Chanakya( Kautilya ) in his Artha Shastra.

"Learn that when thieves, dacoits, traitors in the country become restless, shouting and trying to create anarchy; then believe that the King is ruling well"

Since our learned and scholarly list moderator is unable to locate the source of this famous quotation (which is also doing rounds of social media for past 6 days) in the nowadays "standard" reference of R. Shyamasastry's Arthashastra, perhaps there is some mistranslation in your version, and you can assist us by locating its source from which you were reminded.

You are doubtless aware that the real Artha Shastra of Chanakya is "lost" for centuries now and only available to certain Pandits of Kashi, and what was allegedly "rediscovered" in 1907 (coincidentally by the very same Shyamasastry) is a poor forgery.

sincerely

Sarbajit Roy