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Comment: “Material well-being alone is supreme. For, spiritual good and sensual pleasures depends upon material well-being.” (Kautilya)

  • UPSC 1993
  • 20 marks
  • Indian Political Thought

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The sentence comes from Book 1, chapter 7 of the Arthashastra of Kautilya (Chanakya/Vishnugupta), in the section on the self-discipline of a "royal sage". The wording is R. P. Kangle's. It is Kautilya's own ruling, set against the view he has just reported that the three ends of life be pursued equally.

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