CHANAKYA CHAKRAVARTI

GENERAL INFORMATION
• BORN AROUND 300 BC AND DIED AROUND 283 BC.
• NAME AT BIRTH WAS VISHNUGUPTA BUT WAS LATER KNOWN AS
CHANAKYA AND KAUTILYA
• BORN IN PATALIPUTRA, MAGADHA WHICH IS CURRENTLY PATNA, BIHAR
IN INDIA.
• LATER BECAME PRIME MINISTER OF EMPEROR CHANDRAGUPTA MAURYA.
 CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION
•VISHNUGUPTA WAS BORN TO RISHI CHANAK IN
PATALIPUTRA WHO WAS A REVOLUTIONARY AGAINST
THE CIVIL EMPEROR OF MAGADH.
•TAXILA WAS THE BEST UNIVERSITY OF THE TIME AND
OFFERED EDUCATION IN MANY DIFFERENT FIELDS.
 CHANDRAGUPTA
• AFTER DEFEATING THE GREEKS CHANAKYA RETURNED TO HIS HOME LAND, PATALIPUTRA.
• THE PRIME MINISTER WHO HAD RECENTLY BEEN INSULTED BY THE TYRANNICAL DHANANAND SAW
THIS EVENT AND TAUGHT THAT SUCH A DETERMINED MAN COULD HELP HIM GET HIS REVENGE.
• HE THEN TOOK CHANAKYA TO THE KINGS COURT.
• THE KING LAUGHED AND MADE FUN OF HIM . CHANAKYA SWORE TO DESTROY THE KINGS AND HIS SONS
FOR THE INSULT AND THE PRIME MINISTER RECOMMENDED THAT DHANAND’S ELDEST SON
CHANDRAGUPTA WOULD FIT TO RULE.
 SPECIAL GIFTS AND ABILITIES

• CHANAKYA WAS AMAZING AT GUESSING HIS ENEMY’S

EVERY MOVE AND NEVER ONCE DID HE FAIL TO PREDICT
HIS ENEMY’S DOINGS.
• CHANAKYA WAS VERY GOOD AT SPY WORK AND
MANAGING SPY-SYSTEMS AND CONDUCTING
UNEXPECTED ATTACTS ON HIS ENEMIES.
 MAJOR WORKS BY CHANAKYA
•THE NITISHASTRA IS A BOOK ABOUT
POLITICAL ETHICS TAKEN FROM VARIOUS
SHASTRAS AND COMPLIED BY CHANAKYA .
•THE ARTHASASTRA WHICH IS DIVIDED
INTO 15 BOOKS AND IS BASICALLY A KING’S
THANK YOU
BY
MANIDEEP
BBA-MA 2ND YEAR
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