![]() The Chanakya Niti & Megasthenes’ Indika – ComparisonĪmong the public institutions examined by Stein are first the roads. In this particular the plan followed is to a large extent that of Otto Stein in his Megasthenes and Kautilya where he has exhaustively dealt with this question. An endeavor is made here to examine briefly the differences and the similarities between Megasthenes’ Fragments and the Kautilya and see how the differences so called are really minor and mostly imaginative. ![]() Here we will look at how these differences are not really differences. His name Chanakya probably derives from his father’s name, Chanaka. He was named Vishnugupta, and belonged to the Kutala clan and was thus also called Kautilya. Sometimes, this argument is used to prove that Chanakya did not in fact exist, and that Chanakya was in fact a real individual. Certain Western scholars often bring up the contradictions between Megasthenes works on the Mauryan Empire under Chandragupta, and the works of the Chanakya Niti and Arthashastra as written by Chanakya. ![]()
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