SRI CHANAKYA NITI - English: Including original sanskrit slokas with English co

Chanakya Niti-Shastra
(The Political Ethics of Chanakya Pandit)
Translated by Miles Davis (Patita Pavana dasa)

About 2,300 years ago the Greek conqueror Alexan-
der the Great invaded the Indian sub-continent. His
offensive upon the land’s patchwork of small Hindu em-
pires proved to be highly successful due to the disunity
of the petty rulers. It was Chanakya Pandit who, feeling
deeply distressed at heart, searched for and discovered a
qualified leader in the person of Chandragupta Maurya.
Although a mere dasi-putra, that is, a son of a maidser-
vant by the Magadha King Nanda, Chandragupta was
highly intelligent, courageous and physically powerful.
Chanakya cared little that by birth he should not have
dared to approach the throne. A man of acute discre-
tion, Chanakya desired only that a ruler of extraordi-
nary capabilities be raised to the exalted post of King of
Magadha so that the offensive launched by the Yavanas
(Greeks) could be repressed.
It is said that Chanakya had been personally of-
fended by King Nanda and that this powerful brahmana
had vowed to keep his long sikha unknotted until he
saw to the demise of the contemptuous ruler and his
drunken princes. True to his oath, it was only after
Chanakya Pandit engineered a swift death for the de-
graded and worthless rulers of the Nanda dynasty that
this great brahmana was able to again tie up his tuft of
hair. There are several versions relating the exact way
that Chanakya had set about eliminating the Nandas,
and it appears historians have found it difficult to sep-
arate fact from folk legend as regards to certain specific
details
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