Chanakya Biography

Story of Chanakya

Chanakya was born in the Canaka village of the Golla region, to Brahmin named Canin and his wife Canesvar. Chanakya was well educated. He later became a teacher at the same place.

Chanakya was not good looking and he chooses her wife, as she was also not good looking. Chanakya married to a dark-skinned Brahmin girl named Yashodhra. Once she went to her brother's house for a function. At that function her sisters & sister-in-laws made laugh of her poverty. This made her & Chanakya very sad. His wife said to Chanakya that she has heard that King Dhananand of Patliputra gives cows to Brahmins on the No-moon day of the Krishna-pashas of Kartik month. So, Chanakya went there and sat on the seat, which was meant for the king.

Chanakya was not good-looking. Seeing an ugly person sitting on his seat, Dhananand became so angry with Chanakya that asked his soldiers to throw him out. Chanakya roared in anger & swearer that one day he'll throw Dhanananda out of his throne.

•    When Chanakya was born he had a full set of teeth, which is a sign that he would become a

king or an emperor. But since he was born in a Brahmin family, it was considered inappropriate. Thus, his teeth were broken and it was predicted that he would make another person a king and rule through him.

•    Even as a child, Chanakya had the qualities of a born leader. His level of knowledge was

beyond children of his age.

•    Chanakya was thrown out of the court of King Nanda as he was a blunt man and spoke his

mind clearly. Chanakya swore he would take revenge.

•    Chanakya comes across Chandragupta as a young child. Even at that age, he was a born

 leader and showed the qualities of an able Emperor. He was the guiding force behind Chandragupta and the vital person who made him an able Emperor.

•    Chanakya adds poison in little amounts daily in Chandragupta's food in order to make him

immune to poison, lest some enemy tries to poison him.

•    However Chandragupta was unaware about this and once gave a little food to his wife who

was in the ninth month of pregnancy. She didn't survive but Chanakya cut open her belly and took out the baby.

•    This baby grew up to become an able emperor named Bindusara. He had a minister named

Subandhu who did not like Chanakya. He told Bindusara that Chanakya had killed his mother.

•    Without assessing facts, Bindusara confronted Chanakya. On knowing the whole story, he felt

ashamed at his hasty actions and begged for forgiveness. He asked Subandhu to go and apologize and make Chanakya come back.

•    Subandhu was very cunning and on the pretext of going to apologize to Chanakya, he killed

him. Thus, ended the life of a great person like Chanakya just because of political rivalry. The real cause of Chanakya's death is unknown and disputed. According to one legend, he went to the jungle and starved himself to death.