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Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar

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पृष्ठ 45
  1. In this daring and stormy march of theirs, Chandragupta and Chanakya had many times to face very grave dangers to their lives. Once their whole army was routed by a violent knock of the opposing forces, and Chandragupta and Chanakya had to flee into the forest to save their lives. One night they had to sleep on the bare hard ground, but undeterred by any of these calamities, Chandragupta and Chanakya formed their armies again and again and kept on marching ahead, and in the end, entered the precincts of Pataliputra, the Magadhan capital itself.
  2. The arch-diplomat, Chanakya had bribed the army and the people in the capital of Nanda. On the strength of this general sedition, the daring Chandragupta fell like an arrow-shot upon the city of Pataliputra. Mahapadmanand Beheaded
  3. When Chandragupta’s army rushed into the capital, blocking it very rigidly from every side, there was a great havoc everywhere. Chandragupta himself entered the royal palace but Mahapadmanand had already left it in the general disorder that had ensued, and was trying to slip out of the capital secretly. He was, however, caught on the way and beheaded almost instantaneously. Samrat Chandragupta ki Jaya!
  4. Chandragupta was soon proclaimed Emperor of Magadha. He adopted Maurya as his family name after that of his mother, Mura. Hence, he and his royal dynasty came to be known for ever in history by that very name ‘Maurya’. As soon as he publicly ascended the throne of Magadha, he appointed Chanakya the Chief Minister of the empire, approximately in B.C. 321.
  5. Alexander died round about B.C. 323. It means, therefore, that within about two years, Samrat Chandragupta and Chanakya effected this gigantic revolution that established the independent and powerful Indian empire, dispelling all gloom of despondency and disintegration, while on the other side, the Greek feudal lords were quarrelling amongst themselves. In order to avail himself fully of this opportunity, Chanakya immediately busied himself with the establishment of internal peace and order. The basic principle of Chanakya’s Political theory—Military Might First
  6. But the peace and order of even a unitary empire ultimately depends on its military strength alone, which forms the bedrock of the whole imperial structure. This was the basic principle of Chanakya’s political