# Kautilya

Kautilya is represented within composition traditions spanning roughly the late first millennium BCE to early first millennium CE and South Asian statecraft traditions associated with the Arthashastra. Historicity classification: traditional authorial identity; text, date, and relation to Chanakya are contested.

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