Organisations
Courses for organisations
The academy means to teach teams as well as individuals, starting from two texts: the Arthaśāstra and the Aṣṭādhyāyī.
What an organisation can do today
Syllabus: LiveRead the published syllabi in full, and judge them on what they teach.
See the course catalogueWhat each course would read
Courses for organisations: Not builtNo course for organisations is built yet: none has a price, a schedule or a way to sign up.
Leadership: reading the Arthaśāstra
For people who lead teams and organisationsKauṭilya's account of how a state is run — its seven limbs, its treasury, its counsel and its conduct — read as a text, with the questions it raises for anyone who leads today.
The texts
Kauṭilya's ArthaśāstraVidura NītiŚānti Parva of the Mahābhārata
What it would read, in order
- The seven limbs of a state (saptāṅga)
- The treasury and its audit
- Counsel, alliances and the four means (upāya)
- The ruler's self-discipline (indriya-jaya)
Language: Pāṇini's grammar as a rule system
For people who build software that works with languageThe Aṣṭādhyāyī as a system of short, ordered rules that generate Sanskrit words and sentences — how the rules are stated, how they interact, and what that design offers to anyone computing with language.
The texts
Pāṇini's AṣṭādhyāyīBhartṛhari's VākyapadīyaAnnambhaṭṭa's Tarka Saṅgraha
What it would read, in order
- Rules, their order and their exceptions
- Kāraka: the roles in a sentence
- Navya-Nyāya's language of relations
- The form of a debate (vāda)