give me a short note on Chanakya
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Chanakya was the advisor of Chandragupta Maurya. He was also a teacher, jurist, economist and philospher.
He played prominent role in foundation of Mauryan Empire. In addition to being the chief advisor to Chandragupta Maurya, he also served Bindusara as a chief advisor.
He was also the mentor of The Great Ashoka who later on turned out to be one of the most successful and famous king in the history of India.
Chanakya provided the world with two very important works of him one being Arthashastra which deals with monetary and fiscal policies, welfare, international relations and war strategies in detail. The other book being Chanakya-Neeti which is a collection of aphorisms selected by him from various Shastras.
Answer: chanakya was bron in the capital patliputra as vishnugupta when nanda dynasty was ruling the mate cha later worked as a teacher of political science in the university at takshashila.He and chandraguptamorya brought about the fall of king Dhanananda. He composed the daliys treatise kautilya arthashatra
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