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Chanakya
Also known as Indian Machiavelli
Chanakya (ISO: '''', चाणक्य, ), according to legendary narratives preserved in various traditions dating from the 4th to 11th century CE, was a Brahmin who assisted the first Mauryan emperor Chandragupta in his rise to power and the establishment of the Maurya Empire. According to these narratives, Chanakya served as the chief adviser and prime minister to both emperors Chandragupta Maurya and his son Bindusara.
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Chanakya was a Brahmin who, according to legendary accounts from the 4th to 11th century CE, helped the first Mauryan emperor Chandragupta gain power and establish the Maurya Empire, and then served as chief adviser and prime minister to both Chandragupta and his son Bindusara. His story matters because it has been preserved across multiple historical traditions and illustrates the influential political and advisory role played by intellectuals in ancient Indian empire-building.
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- Chanakya-Chandragupta ''katha'' (legend)
- Buddhist version (5th-6th cent. CE)
- Source
- Narrative
- Jain version (12th cent. CE, based on 1st-8th cent. CE sources)
- Source
- Narrative
- Kashmiri version (11th cent. CE)
- Source
- Kashmiri narrative
- Mudrarakshasa version (4th-8th cent. CE)
- Source
- Mudrarakshasa narrative (4th-8th cent. CE)
- Legacy
- Identification with Kautilya, author of the ''Arthashastra''
- Naming
- In popular culture
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- Arthashastra
- Fiction
- See also
- Notes
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Chanakya (ISO: ', चाणक्य, ), according to legendary narratives preserved in various traditions dating from the 4th to 11th century CE, was a Brahmin who assisted the first Mauryan emperor Chandragupta in his rise to power and the establishment of the Maurya Empire. According to these narratives, Chanakya served as the chief adviser and prime minister to both emperors Chandragupta Maurya and his son Bindusara.
Conventionally, Chanakya was identified with Kauṭilya and synonymously Vishnugupta', the author of the ancient Indian politico-economic treatise Arthashastra. Arthashastra is now thought with high probability to have been composed by multiple authors during the early centuries of the common era—several centuries after the Mauryan period—the backdated identification with Chanakya to have served to add prestige to the work.