A handful of popular maxims current in Sanskrit literature / collected by G.A. Jacob.

Subhasita, gnomic and didactic literature / Ludwik Sternbach.

The spreading of Cāṇakya's aphorisms over "Greater India" / Ludwik Sternbach.

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Maxims, Sanskrit

Works from the collections

A handful of popular maxims current in Sanskrit literature / collected by G.A. Jacob.

Subhasita, gnomic and didactic literature / Ludwik Sternbach.

The spreading of Cāṇakya's aphorisms over "Greater India" / Ludwik Sternbach.