The Sanskrit term Lekhapañcāśikā can be transliterated into English as Lekhapancasika or Lekhapancashika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Lekhapanchashika.

In Hinduism

Arthashastra (politics and welfare)

Source: archive.org: Hindu Mathematics (Artha)

Lekhapañcaśikā (लेखपञ्चशिका) is the name of a manual providing rules for drafting letters, land grants, treaties, etc..—They were written by professional writers. The existence of such writers is mentioned in the southern Buddhist canons and in the Epics. They have been called lekhaka, lipikara and later on divira, karaṇa, kāyastha, etc. According to Kalhaṇa (Rājataraṅgiṇī), the Kings of Kashmir employed a special officer for drafting legal documents. He bore the title of paṭṭopādhyāya, i.e., the teacher (charged with the preparation) of title deeds. The existence of manuals such as the lekhapañcaśikā, the lekhaprakāśa, which give rules for drafting letters, land grants, treaties, and various kinds of bonds and bills of exchange, show beyond doubt that the writing of grant plates was a specialised art and that the style of writing those documents must always have been centuries behind the times, just as it is even to-day with respect to legal and state documents.

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Arthashastra (अर्थशास्त्र, arthaśāstra) literature concerns itself with the teachings (shastra) of economic prosperity (artha) statecraft, politics and military tactics. The term arthashastra refers to both the name of these scientific teachings, as well as the name of a Sanskrit work included in such literature. This book was written (3rd century BCE) by by Kautilya, who flourished in the 4th century BCE.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Lekhapañcāśikā (लेखपञ्चाशिका) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—fifty forms of letters, deeds, bonds, etc. composed in 1232. Bhr. 410.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Lekhapañcāśikā (लेखपञ्चाशिका):—[=lekha-pañcāśikā] [from lekha > likh] f. Name of [work] (containing 50 forms of letters, deeds. bonds etc., composed A.D. 1232).

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Pancashika, Lekha.

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