भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

the smaller monarchies and republics and to forge out of them, a centralized unitary and strong empire. For the Entire Undivided India 108A. But there was not a single Indian monarchy or republic throughout the whole of the region right from Gandhar, Punjab to the Indus delta, which could execute this plan of Chanakya, who had already appraised their capability and inclination. Naturally, his next choice fell on the only mighty empire of North India, namely Magadha. His head full of plans for the future Indian revolution, Arya Chanakya came again to Magadha in order to study secretly the political situation, visiting every place right from a poor man’s cottage to the royal palace. As such, he was trying to get access to the King’s court on some pretext or the other. When the question of the appointment of Arya Chanakya as the Chairman of the ‘Grants’ Department’ (दानाध्यक्ष) was mooted, Nanda did not object to it, because till then, he had known nothing else of Arya Chanakya, but of his scholarship. This appointment greatly helped Arya Chanakya perfect his secret revolutionary plans. 109. But before long, Emperor Nanda had reports that Arya Chanakya was not a scholar pure and simple, but an expert organiser of secret plots and was at that time busy plotting against him. Enraged at this, he publicly insulted Arya Chanakya as already told before, deprived him of his authority as the Chairman of the Grant’s Department, and expelled him out of his imperial precincts. Being thus outlawed, Chanakya returned again to Taxila. 110. In the meanwhile, the young bastard son Chandragupta, being exiled, as has been already told, from the Magadhan court by Emperor Nanda, went to Taxila and joined Chanakya—an incident that proved most favourable to that patriot’s ambitious plans of establishing an all-India empire. Why did Chanakya back Chandragupta alone? 111. If he were to dethrone the weak and wicked Nanda, and crown in his place on the throne of the Magadha empire any outsider, the tradition- loving important persons from amongst the feudatories, the Indian princes and even the common people would probably have opposed vehemently, even though the chosen person had been endowed with the most excellent qualities, whereas Chandragupta, though not a lawful royal prince, had yet some native blood-relation to the throne as the bastard son of the Emperor