Chanakya's Biography and Wise Quotes – Worth Learning

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CHANAKYA QUOTES

(True Indian Politician, Strategist and Writer, 350 BC-283 BC)

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1. " A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and

honest people are screwed

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2. " Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. "

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3. " The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. If

you cannot keep secret with you, do not expect that other will keep it. ! It

will destroy you. " <Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

4. " There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no

Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. "

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5. " Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - WHY am

I doing it, WHAT the results might be and WILL I be successful. Only when

you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go

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6. " As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. "

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7. " Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and

don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. "

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8. " The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But

the goodness of a person spreads in all direction. "

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9. " A man is great by deeds, not by birth. "

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10. " Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next

five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a

friend. Your grown up children are your best friends. "

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11. " Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected

everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. "

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12. " The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a

woman. " <Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

13. " God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is

your temple. " <Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

14. " Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind

person. " <Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

15. " A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother

does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a

prostitute in the night " . <Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

16. " An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won

over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be

won over by truth " . <Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

17. " A human being should strive for four things in life - dharma, money, sex

and salvation. A person who hasn't strived for even one of these things has

wasted life " . <Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

18. " A rich man has many

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19. " A woman is four times as shy, six times as brave and eight times as

libidinous as a man " . <Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

20. " If you get to learn something even from the worst of creatures, don't

hesitate " . <Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

21. " In a state where the ruler lives like a common man, the citizens live

like kings do. And in the state where the ruler lives like a king, the

citizens live like beggars do " .<Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

22. " Jealousy is another name for

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23. " Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status.

Such friendships will never give you any

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24. " One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure

and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of

knowledge " . <Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

25. " The four greatest enemies of a man are - the father who has taken a

loan, the characterless mother, the beautiful but promiscuous wife and the

stupid child " . <Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

26. " God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is

your temple. " <Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

27. " Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make

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*BIRTH AND RISE OF CHANAKYA*<Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

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Chanakya (

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Indian Politician, Strategist and Writer, 350 BC-283

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was an adviser and a prime minister to the first Maurya Emperor Chandragupta

(340-293 BC), and architect of his rise to power. Kautilya and Vishnugupta,

the names by which the political treatise *Artha´shastra* identifies its

author, are traditionally identified with Chanakya. Some scholars consider

Chanakya to be " the pioneer economist of the world " and the " the Indian

Machiavelli " . Chankya was a professor at Taxila (Taká¹£a´sila (sanskrit

word) or Takshashila) University and is widely believed to be responsible

for the first Indian empire.

 

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*IDENTITY* <Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

He is generally called Chanakya, but, in his capacity as author of the *

Artha´shastra*, is generally referred to as Kautilya. The

*Artha´shastra*identifies its author by the name Kautilya, except for

one verse which

refers to him by the name Vishnugupta. One of the earliest Sanskrit

literature to explicitly identify Chanakya with Vishnugupta was Vishnu

Sarma's *Panchatantra* in the 3rd century BC.

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K.C. Ojha puts forward the view that the traditional identification of Vi

ṣṇugupta with Kauṭilya was caused by a confusion of editor and

originator and suggests that Viṣṇugupta was a redactor of the original

work of Kauṭilya. Thomas Burrow goes even further and suggests that Caṇakya

and Kauá¹­ilya may have been two different people.

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*LEGEND* <Hum-Our-Tum/join>

 

Thomas R. Trautmann lists the following elements as common to different

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·Chanakya was born with a complete set of teeth, a sign that he would become

king, which is inappropriate for a

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like Chanakya. Chanakya's teeth were therefore broken and it was prophesied

that he will rule through another.

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·The Nanda King throws Chanakya out of his court, prompting Chanakya to

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·Chanakya searches for one worthy for him to rule through. Chanakya

encounters a young Chandragupta Maurya who is a born leader even as a child.

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·Chanakya's initial attempt to overthrow Nanda fails, whereupon he comes

across a mother scolding her child for burning himself by eating from the

middle of a bun or bowl of porridge rather than the cooler edge. Chaṇakya

realizes his initial strategic error and, instead of attacking the heart of

Nanda territory, slowly chips away at its edges.

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·Chanakya betrays his ally the mountain king Parvata.

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·Chanakya enlists the services of a fanatical weaver to rid the kingdom of

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·Chanakya's political rivalry with Subandhu leads to his

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·Chanakya adds poison to the food eaten by Chandragupta, now king, in order

to make him immune. Unaware, Chandragupta feeds some of his food to his

queen, who is in her ninth month of pregnancy. In order to save the heir to

the throne, Chanakya cuts the queen open and extracts the fetus, who is

named Bindusara because he was touched by a drop (*bindu*) of blood or of

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Chanakya lived to ripe old age and died around 283 BC and was cremated by

his grandson/disciple Radhagupta who succeeded Rakshasa Katyayan

(great-grand son of Prabuddha Katyayan, who attained Nirvana during the same

period as Gautam Budhha ) as Prime Minister of the Maurya Empire and was

instrumental in backing Ashoka to the throne. There were three

non-traditional belief paths in society those days, Jaina, Buddhist and

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Ajivaka practising Chanakya brought about the downfall of the Jaina Nandas

and their coterie of Jaina ministers. (Chanakya 's uncle was Jain, too, and

a group of Jains backed Chanakya in his political machinations). Later on,

Chandragupta Maurya took Jainism on abdicating his throne which passed to

his Son Bindusara who was an Ajivaka.

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Even Ashoka was practising Ajivaka who before accession to throne became

Buddhist. Bindusara was born before his father ever became Emperor so the

below legend is definitely not true. Ashoka's daughter was married in 265 BC

and his son Kunala was 18 years of age in 269 BC which means that even the

princes married early, Ashoka was born 310 BC and Bindusara around 330 BC.

Bindusara means one who encompasses all that is need to be

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Later on, Ajivikism which was the official religion of the empire since the

Kalinga War (261 BC) and for 14 years afterwards, declined and merged into

traditional Hinduism. What has been left are a mish mash of contradictory

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According to a legend which is a later jaina invention, while Chanakya

served as the Prime Minister of Chandragupta Maurya, he started adding small

amounts of poison in Chandragupta's food so that he would get used to it.

The aim of this was to prevent the Emperor from being poisoned by enemies.

One day the queen, Durdha, shared the food with the Emperor while she was

pregnant. Since she was not used to eating poisoned food, she died. Chanakya

decided that the baby should not die; hence he cut open the belly of the

queen and took out the baby. A drop (*bindu* in Sanskrit) of poison had

passed to the baby's head, and hence Chanakya named him Bindusara. Bindusara

would go on to become a great king and to father the greatest Mauryan

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When Bindusara became a youth, Chandragupta gave up the throne and followed

the Jain saint Bhadrabahu to present day Karnataka and settled in a place

known as Sravana Belagola. He lived as an ascetic for some years and died of

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Chanakya meanwhile stayed as the Prime Minister of Bindusara. Bindusara also

had a minister named Subandhu who did not like Chanakya. One day he told

Bindusara that Chanakya was responsible for the murder of his mother.

Bindusara asked the nurses who confirmed this story and he became very angry

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It is said that Chanakya, on hearing that the Emperor was angry with him,

thought that anyway he was at the end of his life. He donated all his wealth

to the poor, widows and orphans and sat on a dung heap, prepared to die by

total abstinence from food and drink. Bindusara meanwhile heard the full

story of his birth from the nurses and rushed to beg forgiveness of

Chanakya. But Chanakya would not relent. Bindusara went back and vent his

fury on Subandhu, who asked for time to beg for forgiveness from

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Subandhu, who still hated Chanakya, wanted to make sure that Chanakya did

not return to the city. So he arranged for a ceremony of respect, but

unnoticed by anyone, slipped a smoldering charcoal ember inside the dung

heap. Aided by the wind, the dung heap swiftly caught fire, and the man

behind the Mauryan Empire and the author of Arthashastra was burned to

death. His main philosophy was " A debt should be paid off till the last

penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace " . Ironically, Subandhu

followed his main philosophy and destroyed him (*Chanakya*) without a

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*OTHER VERSIONS*

 

The 9th century AD Sanskrit play by Vishakhadatta, Mudra Rakshasa, is one

popular source of Chankaya lore.

 

A South Indian group of Brahmins in Tamil Nadu called Sholiyar or Chozhiyar,

claim that Chanakya was one of them. And a backward community, Nair, from

Kerala also claim that Chanakya was one among them. Though all these may

sound very improbable considering the vast distance between present day

Tamilnadu in the south and Magadha in Bihar, it finds curious echos in

Parishista-parvan, where Hemachandra claims that Chankya was a Dramila

( " Dramila " is believed to be the root of the word " Dravida " by some

scholars). But, a name like " Vishnu Gupta " is very unlikely to be found in

southern India then.

 

Kautilya was educated at Taxila or Takshashila, in present day Pakistan.

The new states (in present-day Bihar and Uttar Pradesh) by the northern high

road of commerce along the base of the Himalayas maintained contact with

Takshasilâ and at the eastern end of the northern high road (uttarapatha)

was the kingdom of Magadha with its capital city, Pataliputra, now known as

Patna. Chanakya's life was connected to these two cities, Pataliputra and

Taxila. In his early years he was tutored extensively in the Vedas -

Chanakya memorized them completely at a very early age. He was also taught

mathematics, geography and science along with religion. Later he travelled

to Taxila, where he became a teacher of politics.

 

 

 

Chanakya taught subjects using the best of practical knowledge acquired by

the teachers. The age of entering the University was sixteen. The branches

of study most sought after around India at that time ranged from law,

medicine, warfare and other disciplines. Two of his more famous students

were Bhadrabhatt and Purushdutt.

 

 

 

Political turmoil in Western India at that time caused by Greek invasion

forced Chanakya to leave the University environment for the city of

Pataliputra (presently known as Patna, in the state of Bihar, India), which

was ruled by the Nanda king Dhanananda. Although Chanakya initially

prospered in his relations with the ruler, being a blunt person he was soon

disliked by Dhanananda. This ended with Chanakya being removed from an

official position he enjoyed.

 

 

 

According to the Kashmiri version of his legend, Chaṇakya uproots some

grass because it had pricked its foot.

 

 

 

WORKS

 

Three books are attributed to Chanakya: *Arthashastra*, *Nitishastra*

and *Chanakya

Niti*. The *Arthashastra* discusses monetary and fiscal policies, welfare,

international relations, and war strategies in detail. Many of his

*nitis*or policies have been compiled under the book title

*Chanakya Niti*. *Nitishastra* is a treatise on the ideal way of life, and

shows Chanakya's in depth study of the INDIAN WAY OF LIFE.

 

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