Aacharya Chaanakya

Chanakya also known as kavtilya Or Vishnu Gupta (C.370 -283 BC) was an India teacher, philosopher and royal adviser. He was initially a professor of economics and political science at the ancient Takshashila University in Takshashila present day Pakistan. He managed the first Maury emperor Chandragupta's rise to power an important role in the establishment of the Maurya Empire Which was the first empire in archaeology recorded history to rule most of the Indian subcontinent. Chanakya and his son Bindusar(whose son was emperor Ashoka.) Chanakya is Gedited with anthoring two treatises said to be the first of its genre in the world the Arthasastra (Economic), the ancient Indian political treaties, the Nitishastra, The Chanakya Niti, a treatise, On the ideal way of life and his policies. His works predate Niccolo Machiavelli's by about 1800 years He is compared to Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher who taught Alexander as both had Identical views on the Republican forms of governance. His works which were lost towards the end of the Gupta dynasty could be discovered only in 1915.

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