Influence of Indigenous Philosophy on the Administrative Culture of Nepal
- 1 Research Centre, Nepal Sanskrit University, Kathmandu, Nepal
- 2 Department of Mathematics, Valmeeki Campus, Nepal Sanskrit University, Kathmandu, Nepal
- 3 Central Department of Education, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal
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.
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