[aneeshm]

I don't know whether it's well-regarded; I do however highly recommend the translation-cum-rearrangement by Rangarajan: http://www.amazon.com/Arthashastra-Penguin-classics-Kautilya... (I've read it myself, and found it quite good.)

(He's re-arranged it to be coherent for a modern reader; one reason for this is because the original was meant to be memorised and perhaps used from memory, and was ordered accordingly.)

[emilga]

> (He's re-arranged it to be coherent for a modern reader; one reason for this is because the original was meant to be memorised and perhaps used from memory, and was ordered accordingly.)

Interesting. Can you comment on how the original was arranged to facilitate memorization?