Abstract

Indigenous philosophy is an organized form of human activities for human and humanity that people have been practicing and adapting for a long time as the custom of Nepal and its territory. The present constitution of Nepal has been given importance to the protection of religions and cultures that has been going on since time immemorial. The Vedas is the source of knowledge of human life and the study of Vedas, Manusmriti, Kautilya’s economics, Yajnavalakya Smriti, Shukra Policy etc., are in the form of Indigenous philosophy that helped to improve the administrative system of Nepal. In this article, we investigated about the practice and influence of Indigenous Philosophy in administrative culture of Nepal.

Highlights

  • Administration is the executive mechanism and working system developed by the state administrators (Epstein and Gang, 2010)

  • The Vedas is the source of knowledge of human life and the study of Vedas, Manusmriti, Kautilya’s economics, Yajnavalakya Smriti, Shukra Policy etc., are in the form of Indigenous philosophy that helped to improve the administrative system of Nepal

  • We investigated about the practice and influence of Indigenous Philosophy in administrative culture of Nepal

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Summary

Introduction

Administration is the executive mechanism and working system developed by the state administrators (Epstein and Gang, 2010). Societal behavior that has been going on from very development of the society is making the administrative system indestructible Such an act is called indigenes phenomenon, in Nepali vernacular this can be term as Sanatan custom with regarding Nepali culture that relate to immemorial or eternal. As the Constitution of Nepal mentions the protection of religion and culture from time immemorial or eternal in the explanatory section of secularism, the word sanatan has constitutional foundation (Constitution of Nepal, 2015). Days this word is popularly used as indigenous knowledge which relates very early to recent social human activities in different communities. In the context of the Vedas, which is a source of knowledge for the conduct of human life and being considered as knowledge, the relationship between indigenous or eternal philosophy such as the Vedas and Manusmriti, Shukraniti, Kautilya’s Arthasastra, etc. and these are connected in administrative system of Nepal

The Vedas
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Kautilya’s Arthasastra-Kautilya’s Economics
Yajnavalakya Smriti or Yajnavalakya Memorandum
Narada Smriti or Narada Memorandum
Influence of Indigenous Philosophy in Various Fields
Administrative Field
Economic Field
Political Field
Culture Field
10. Conclusion
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