This work recommends that elders past the age of reproduction should live in poverty and have their wills executed early to improve the standard of living for younger generations, and this work formulates an early theory of government healthcare by calling on monarchs to provide support for pregnant women, elders, and orphans.  This work includes a detailed discussion of how to employ courtesans in war and enumerates a "six-fold policy" of diplomacy which consists of strategies derived from the basic pair of sandhi and vigraha, or peace and war.  The author also urges monarchs to preserve the caste system and emphasizes that a successful army
This work recommends that elders past the age of reproduction should live in poverty and have their wills executed early to improve the standard of living for younger generations, and this work formulates an early theory of government healthcare by calling on monarchs to provide support for pregnant women, elders, and orphans.  This work includes a detailed discussion of how to employ courtesans in war and enumerates a "six-fold policy" of diplomacy which consists of strategies derived from the basic pair of sandhi and vigraha, or peace and war.  The author also urges monarchs to preserve the caste system and emphasizes that a successful army must include Vaishyas and Shudras.  Written under the pen-name Kautilya, FTP, name this Mauryan era text attributed to Chanakya.
This work recommends that elders past the age of reproduction should live in poverty and have their wills executed early to improve the standard of living for younger generations, and this work formulates an early theory of government healthcare by calling on monarchs to provide support for pregnant women, elders, and orphans.  
{Arthashastra} [accept: {Arthasastra}]