Editing Arthashastra (section)

===Translation of the title===
Different scholars have translated the word "arthashastra" in different ways.

* R.P. Kangle: "Artha is the sustenance or livelihood of men, and {{IAST|Arthaśāstra}} is the science of the means to Artha"<ref>RP Kangle (1965, Reprinted in 2010), Arthaśāstra, Part 3, Motilal Banarsidass, {{ISBN|978-8120800410}}, pages 1-2</ref> "science of politics";{{sfn|Boesche|2003}}
* [[A.L. Basham]]: a "treatise on polity"<ref name="Boesche 2003">Boesche 2003</ref>
* [[D.D. Kosambi]]: "science of material gain"<ref name="Boesche 2003"/>
* G.P. Singh: "science of polity"<ref name="Boesche 2003"/>
* [[Roger Boesche]]: "science of [[political economy]]"<ref name="Boesche 2003"/>
* [[Patrick Olivelle]]: "science of politics"{{efn-la|name="Olivelle_2013_title"}}

[[Artha]] (prosperity, wealth, purpose, meaning, economic security) is one of the four aims of human life in Hinduism ([[Puruṣārtha]]),<ref>[[Arvind Sharma]] (1999), The Puruṣārthas: An Axiological Exploration of Hinduism, The Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 223-256</ref> the others being [[dharma]] (laws, duties, rights, virtues, right way of living),<ref>Steven Rosen (2006), Essential Hinduism, Praeger, {{ISBN|0-275-99006-0}}, page 34-45</ref> [[kama]] (pleasure, emotions, sex)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Macy |first1=Joanna |year=1975 |title=The Dialectics of Desire |journal=Numen |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=145–60 |publisher=BRILL |jstor=3269765|doi=10.1163/156852775X00095 }}</ref> and [[moksha]] (spiritual liberation).<ref>John Bowker (2003), The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|978-0192139658}}, pages 650-651</ref> [[Shastra|{{IAST|Śāstra}}]] is the Sanskrit word for "rules" or "science".