Arthashastra

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पुराण चोर व्यञ्जनाश् च अन्तेवासिनश् चैत्य चतुष्पथ शून्य पद उद पान नदी निपान तीर्थ आयतन आश्रम अरण्य शैल वन गहनेषु स्तेन अमित्र प्रवीर पुरुषाणां च प्रवेशन स्थान गमन प्रयोजनान्य् उपलभेरन् ॥

sanskrit

In places where altars are situated or where four roads meet, in ancient ruins, in the vicinity of tanks, rivers, bathing places, in places of pilgrimage and hermitage, and in desert tracts, mountains, and thick grown forests, spies under the guise of old and notorious thieves with their student bands shall ascertain the causes of arrival and departure, and halt of thieves, enemies, and persons of undue bravery.

english translation

purANa cora vyaJjanAz ca antevAsinaz caitya catuSpatha zUnya pada uda pAna nadI nipAna tIrtha Ayatana Azrama araNya zaila vana gahaneSu stena amitra pravIra puruSANAM ca pravezana sthAna gamana prayojanAny upalabheran ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript

siva.sh/arthashastra/adhyaksa-pracara/35/14

पुराण चोर व्यञ्जनाश् च अन्तेवासिनश् चैत्य चतुष्पथ शून्य पद उद पान नदी निपान तीर्थ आयतन आश्रम अरण्य शैल वन गहनेषु स्तेन अमित्र प्रवीर पुरुषाणां च प्रवेशन स्थान गमन प्रयोजनान्य् उपलभेरन् ॥

sanskrit

In places where altars are situated or where four roads meet, in ancient ruins, in the vicinity of tanks, rivers, bathing places, in places of pilgrimage and hermitage, and in desert tracts, mountains, and thick grown forests, spies under the guise of old and notorious thieves with their student bands shall ascertain the causes of arrival and departure, and halt of thieves, enemies, and persons of undue bravery.

english translation

purANa cora vyaJjanAz ca antevAsinaz caitya catuSpatha zUnya pada uda pAna nadI nipAna tIrtha Ayatana Azrama araNya zaila vana gahaneSu stena amitra pravIra puruSANAM ca pravezana sthAna gamana prayojanAny upalabheran ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript