Arthashastra (अर्थशास्त्रम्)

Arthashastra (अर्थशास्त्रम्)

Tirupati Balaji Namaha

Sri Ganeshaya namaha

The veracity of application to Kautilya's Arthashastra ranges to limitless boundaries of knowledge and learning from medicine to education to philosophy and even to contemporary management sciences. Kautilya's Arthashastra is a masterpiece of the 326 BC in the Mauryan Era which is a Moola Mantra not only for political governance but also a Gupta mantra for corporate management governance. The preaching and mandates of Kautilya elevate human thinking to act beyond his sixth sense involving cognitive, affective and motor domains to gain complete control over management of self and institutions (extraordinary intuition, self control, vision, accurate prediction, confident of decisions taken, combating poison attacks etc.) . Thus human personality ( the king) must manifest multi dimensional adaptive roles during different times . The king is a ruler of the kingdom ( a corporate leader) and as a decision maker has to be secretive about his war strategies ( incubating new product developments) at the same time be offensive and defensive with enemies (corporate rivalry and competition) as the threat perception may be ensuring his survival despite enemy attack (presence of substitutes and complementary products and disruptive technologies). Such preaching are of the nature of Gupta Mantra.