Editing Arthashastra (section)

===Translations and scholarship===
The text has been translated and interpreted by Shamashastry (translation, 1909{{sfn|Shamasastry|1909}}), R.P. Kangle (translation 1969,{{efn-la|name="Olivelle_criticism_Kangle"}} textual analysis 1965{{sfn|Kangle|1965}}), Dieter Schlingloff (historical background, 1965,{{sfn|Schlingloff|1965}} 1967,{{sfn|Schlingloff|1967}} and 1969{{sfn|Schlingloff|1969}}{{efn-la|name="Schlingloff_2012"|{{harvtxt|Schlingloff|2012}} contains translations of {{harvtxt|Schlingloff|1967}} and {{harvtxt|Schlingloff|1969}}}}), Scharfe (textual analysis, 1968{{sfn|Scharfe|1968}}), Trautmann (textual analysis, 1971{{sfn|Trautmann|1971}}), Rangarajan (translation, 1992{{sfn|Rangarajan|1992}}), [[Patrick Olivelle]] (textual analysis 2004,{{sfn|Olivelle|2004}} translation 2013{{sfn|Olivelle|2013}}), and McClish (textual analysis 2009,{{sfn|McClish|2009|p=5}} 2014,{{sfn|McClish2014}} 2019{{sfn|McClish|2019}}), and a selection of Arthashastra-texts by Olivelle and McClish (2012{{sfn|Olivelle|McClish|2012}}).

According to McClish, writing in 2009, three "major recent studies" have been done on the composition of the Arthashastra, namely Kangle (1965),{{efn-la|name="Olivelle_criticism_Kangle"}} Scharfe (1968), and Trautmann (1971), whereafter "little, if any, major work has been done on the composition of the Arthaśāstra in nearly forty years."{{sfn|McClish|2009|p=5}} Olivelle published ''King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India: Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra'' in 2013, "taking into account the latest advances in Kautilya studies";{{sfn|Olivelle|2013|p=2}} a translation which, according to Richard Davis, "clearly supplants all other translations of this work into English, including those of Kangle (1977) and L. N. Rangarajan (1992)."{{sfn|Davis|2015}}{{efn-la|name="Olivelle_translation"}} Olivelle adds Dieter Schlingloff's studies (1965,{{sfn|Schlingloff|1965}} 1967,{{sfn|Schlingloff|1967}} and 1969{{sfn|Schlingloff|1969}}{{efn-la|name="Schlingloff_2012"}}) and McClish' 2009 PhD-thesis as "groundbreaking studies" since Kangle's study from 1965;{{sfn|Olivelle|2013|p=2}} McClish' also published in 2019 ''The History of the Arthasastra''.{{sfn|McClish|2019}}