Sanatana Dharma - Aka Hinduism (1st Bin)

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<b>Re: Vasudhaiva kutumbakam </b>

Attribution to chANakya of the subhAShita, will date it to few centuries BC at least. chANakya is supposed to have composed other works. chANakya-niti-darpaNa is the most commonly found nIti text.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->List of chANakya's works used by Ludwig Sternbach in his paper:
(Very few of the the following list are published, most are in manuscript form.)

1. Canakya's aphorisms
          Klatt, De trecentis Canakyae poetae Indici sententiis. (Halis Saxonum)
          Kressler, Stimmen indischer Lebensklugheit. (Frankfurt a/M., 1904)

2. Laghucanakya

3.  Canakya-niti-sastra

4. Canakya-raja-niti-sastra

5. Canakya-sloka
          Canakyam
          Canakyasatakam,
          Canakya-niti-vyavahara-sara-sangraha

6. Canakya-niti-sataka

7. Vrddha Canakya

8.  Rajaniti

9. Canakya-niti-darpana
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<b>Regarding kAlidAsa: </b>

The style and simple language used in this subhAShita seems very unlike kAlidAsa, who typically used more literary and harder sanskrit. But following the current dating of kAlidAsa in the gupta period will date it to few centuries AD.

<b>Regarding bhartR^ihari:</b>

Ludwig Sternbach attributes the following work to him:

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Bhartrhari-viracita, <b><i>satakatrayadi</i>-subhasita-sangraha</b>. Ed. by D. D. Kosambi. Singhi Jaina Granthamala 23. (Bombay, 1948) <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The above text's name contains "shataka-trayAdi" meaning including the three shataka-s. So perhaps it has more material than just the three commonly found shataka-s.