• Chanakya (BC 371- BC 283) was an Indian teacher, philosopher, economist, jurist and royal advisor. He is traditionally identified as Kautilya or Vishnugupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise, the Arthashastra.
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• Chanakya dedicated his life to forming the Maurya Empire and guiding its pioneer-Chandragupta Maurya and his son, Bindusara.
• Chanakya's ambitions took flight when he was insulted by the emperor of the Nanda dynasty, who ruled the Magadha kingdom in India. At that time, Magadha was the most prominent empire in India while other parts were separate states. Taking the insult to his heart, Chanakya became an ally of Chandragupta Maurya who had been exiled from the Nanda family.
• Chanakya helped Chandragupta form a small army, and entered Pataliputra, the capital of the Magadha kingdom and ignited a civil war there, using his intelligence network.
• The life of Chanakya has been described in four different versions- The Buddhist version, the Jain version, the Kashmiri version and Vishakhadatta's Sanskrit Mudrarakshasa version. All four versions describe how he was insulted by the Nanda emperor and how Chanakya vowed to destroy him thereafter.
• Apart from this, the scholar has even studied the various Indian shastras and compiled its multiple lessons into 'Chanakya Niti' or 'Chanakya Niti Shastra.'
Chanakya Niti
• Chanakya Niti is originally written in Sanskrit later it translated to English and many other languages and also in Hindi.
• His knowledge about Politics, kings, market and money is so accurate that it is still useful in the modern world.
• Life lessons of Acharya Chanakya and teachings from Chanakya are even taught as an important part of Management Studies which is also referred as Chanakya Neeti.
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"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."
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“Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.”
"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 ahead."
“Learning is a friend on a journey, a wife in the house, medicine in sickness, and religious merit is the only friend after death."
"Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.''
"The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects."
"The student, the servant, the traveller, the hungry person, the frightened man, the treasury guard, and the steward: these seven ought to be awakened if they fall asleep."
"Humbleness is at the root of self-control.”
"The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort."
