'''Arthašastros''' ([[sanskritas|sanskritu]]: ''Arthaśāstra'') senovės Indijos mokslo veikalas skirtas nušviesti valstybės valdymo meno vingrybes bei ekonomikos politikos ir karo strategijų ypatybes. Šio veikalo autoriais yra laikomas Kautilya<ref>{{citeKautilija journalkurių |likimas firstbuvo =persipinęs I.su W. | last = Mabbett | year = 1964 | month = April | title = The Date of the Arthaśāstra | journal = Journal of the American Oriental Society | volume = 84 | issue = 2 | pages = 162–169 | id = ISSN 0003-0279 | doi = 10.2307/597102 | url = http://jstor.org/stable/597102 | publisher = Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 84, No. 2 | ref = harv }}<br>{{cite book | last = Trautmann | first = Thomas R. | authorlink = Thomas Trautmann | title = {{IAST|Kauṭilya}} and the Arthaśāstra: A Statistical Investigation of the Authorship and Evolution of the Text | year = 1971 | publisher = E.J. Brill | location = Leiden | pages = 10 | quote =while in his character as author of an ''arthaśāstra'' he is generally referred to by his ''[[gotraČanakja]]''name,(350–283 {{IAST|Kauṭilya}}m.}}</ref>ir Viṣhṇugupta,<ref>Mabbett 1964<br>Trautmann 1971:5 "the very last verse of the work..pr.isthe unique instance of the personal name {{IAST|Viṣṇugupta}} rather than the ''[[gotra]]'' name {{IAST|Kauṭilya}} in the ''Arthaśāstra''m.</ref>kurių likimas buvo persipinęs su Chāṇakya (ce. 350–283 BC),<ref>Mabbett 1964 "References to the work in other Sanskrit literature attribute it variously to {{IAST|Viṣṇugupta}}, {{IAST|Cāṇakya}} and {{IAST|Kauṭilya}}. The same individual is meant in each case. The ''[[Panchatantra|Pańcatantra]]'' explicitly identifies [[Chanakya]] with {{IAST|Viṣṇugupta}}."</ref> kuris buvo mokslininkas vėliau tapęs [[Maurjų imperija|Maurjų imperijos]] ministru pirminku.