the arthashastra is the greatest thing ever written
Kautylia's near Encypcledic treatise on Political Power in Ancient India, A self help book for kings, How to Be a Maharaja. Kautylia advises a king to study the school Lokayota, the worldly philosophy, the material athiest, proto scientific blaspemy ( 🙃 talk about an *enlightened despot )en.wikisource.org/wiki/Arthashastra