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Chanakya had an ugly appearance, accentuated by his broken teeth and crooked feet. One day, the Emperor Dhana Nanda organized an alms-giving ceremony for Brahmins. Chanakya went to Pupphapura to attend this ceremony. Disgusted by his appearance, the emperor ordered him to be thrown out of the assembly.
Victor Henry (1888), Le sceau de Râkchasa: (Moudrârâkchasa) drame sanscrit en sept actes et un prologue (French translation), Maisonneuve & C. Leclerc; Moreshvar Ramchandra Kāle (1900), The Mudrárákshasa: with the commentary of Dhundirája, son of Lakshmana (and a complete English translation) Hillebrandt, Alfred (1912). Mudrarakshasa Part-i.
In the play, he holds the post of Amatya (prime minister) in the Nanda and Maurya courts of Magadha. Originally a minister of the Nanda king, he escapes during Chandragupta Maurya's conquest of the Nanda empire. He then makes several attempts to overthrow Chandragupta, but each time, he is outsmarted by Chandragupta's advisor Chanakya.
The identification is implied at the penultimate paragraph of the Arthashastra, which states, "without the explicit use of the name Canakya," that the treatise was authored by the person who rescued the country from the Nanda kings," [98] that is, the Maurya prime minister Chanakya who according to tradition played a pivotal role in the ...
Vishnugupta, popularly known as Chanakya or Kautilya, the architect of the Mauryan Empire in the fourth century BCE, theorized further, working on this basic dictum, and brought out a treatise called "Kautilya’s Arthashastra" meaning a treatise on Public Administration the first such document in India. Kautilya's approach enshrined the "State ...
[3] [4] Acharya Chanakya is considered as the pride and ideal of Brahmin communities. He was an accomplished politician, diplomat and strategist as well as the author of Indian text Arthashastra. [5] He is also called Kautilya because of his deep understanding of various subjects. [6] [7] [8]
The Nanda–Mauryan War [6] was a war fought in ancient India from c. 323 BCE to 321 BCE between the King Dhana Nanda of the Nanda dynasty and forces of Chandragupta Maurya that led to the establishment of the Maurya Empire in Magadha. [7] Little is known from historical sources for certain dating about the conflict.
The Jain tradition, as recorded in the Avashyaka Sutra and the 12th-century text Parishishta-parvan, corroborates the Greco-Roman accounts, stating that the first Nanda king was the son of a barber. [ 9 ] [ 1 ] [ 10 ] According to the 12th century text Parishishta-parvan , the mother of the first Nanda king was a courtesan.