Kauṭilya; Jolly, Julius [Bearb.]; Schmidt, Richard [Bearb.]: Arthaśāstra: a new edition (2): Notes, with commentary ... (Lahore: The Punjab Sanskrit Book Depot, 1924)

ABBREVIATIONS.
B—Nr. 335 of the Munich Government Library
Sanskrit Mss. being a carefully written Devanagari
transcript from a Grantha Ms. belonging to the Go-
vernment Oriental College Library Madras. It con-
tains on 603 pages in quarto-size the whole text of the
Kautiliya Arthasastra.
Co—a Sanskrit Commentary by Bhattasvamin on
Arthasastra II, 8-36, according to quotations from it
in Sh and So.
M—two Mss. of the Kautiliya Arthasastra, also
belonging to the Madras Oriental College Library,
from copies of them which were used for the Mysore
edition of 1919 of the Kautiliya Arthasastra and desig-
nated as n in the footnotes to that edition.
Me—-Medhatithi’s commentary on the Manava
Dharmasastra. It contains extensive quotations from
the present work.
S—Somadeva’s Nitivakyamrta.
S—Samkaraya’s commentary on the Nitisara
printed at Trivandrum, 1912. This and the preceding
text are particularly rich in quotations from the Kaut.
Arthasastra.
Sh—Shamasastri in his Arthasastra of Kautilya,
edited at Mysore 1919 and the same in his English
translation of that work, Bangalore 1915.
So—Sorabji, Some Notes on the Adhyaksa-Pracara,
printed at Allahabad 1914.
U—Upadhyayanirapeksanusarini-Tika, a commen-
tary on the Nitisara in R. Mitra’s edition of that work
(Calc. 1861 ), containing many quotations from tee
Arthasastra.