Arthashastra

Quality:

Arthashastra - ancient Indian treatise by Kautilya. This book is the 879^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 261^st most popular book in Malay Wikipedia. Article “Arthashastra” in Malay Wikipedia has 22.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Malay) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Malay Wikipedia:

The 261^st most popular in books in Malay Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 879^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Arthashastra”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Malay Wikipedia and edited by 781 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Arthashastra is on the 261^st place in local ranking of books in Malay Wikipedia and on the 879^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 37 times in Malay Wikipedia and cited 4614 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Malay): #6708 in September 2025
• Global: #9128 in December 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Malay): #1880 in December 2025
• Global: #35972 in November 2025

There are 30 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Arthashastra		97.1429
2	Tamil (ta) அர்த்தசாஸ்திரம்		69.3565
3	Armenian (hy) Արտհաշաստրա		39.2369
4	Hindi (hi) अर्थशास्त्र (ग्रन्थ)		38.9436
5	Spanish (es) Artha-shastra		31.1882
6	Italian (it) Arthaśāstra		30.3082
7	Portuguese (pt) Artaxastra		29.4589
8	Indonesian (id) Arthasastra		27.9983
9	Turkish (tr) Arthashastra		24.8171
10	Malay (ms) Arthashastra		22.4645

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Arthashastra		4 359 564
2	Hindi (hi) अर्थशास्त्र (ग्रन्थ)		873 039
3	Russian (ru) Артхашастра		301 825
4	Tamil (ta) அர்த்தசாஸ்திரம்		152 712
5	Spanish (es) Artha-shastra		89 616
6	Indonesian (id) Arthasastra		86 350
7	Japanese (ja) 実利論		68 423
8	German (de) Arthashastra		58 113
9	Ukrainian (uk) Артхашастра		51 917
10	French (fr) Arthashâstra		40 722

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Arthashastra		11 671
2	Hindi (hi) अर्थशास्त्र (ग्रन्थ)		1 348
3	Russian (ru) Артхашастра		401
4	Spanish (es) Artha-shastra		369
5	Japanese (ja) 実利論		289
6	Tamil (ta) அர்த்தசாஸ்திரம்		222
7	Chinese (zh) 政事论		218
8	French (fr) Arthashâstra		134
9	German (de) Arthashastra		131
10	Italian (it) Arthaśāstra		100

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Arthashastra		337
2	German (de) Arthashastra		60
3	Hindi (hi) अर्थशास्त्र (ग्रन्थ)		60
4	Italian (it) Arthaśāstra		42
5	French (fr) Arthashâstra		41
6	Russian (ru) Артхашастра		40
7	Turkish (tr) Arthashastra		19
8	Japanese (ja) 実利論		18
9	Portuguese (pt) Artaxastra		15
10	Ukrainian (uk) Артхашастра		14

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Arthashastra		7
2	Azerbaijani (az) Arthaşastra		3
3	Tamil (ta) அர்த்தசாஸ்திரம்		1
4	Czech (cs) Arthašástra		0
5	German (de) Arthashastra		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Arthaŝastra		0
7	Spanish (es) Artha-shastra		0
8	Persian (fa) ارته‌شاستره		0
9	Finnish (fi) Arthashastra		0
10	French (fr) Arthashâstra		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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