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A. INTRODUCTION
CĀŅAKYA-VIṣŅUGUPTA—KAUŢILYA
1. Vätsyāyane mallanāgaḥ kauṭilyaś caṇakātmajaḥ
drāmilaḥ pakṣilasvāmī vişnugupto 'ngulaś ca saḥ.¹
These are the names under which one of the
greatest celebrities of India was known-Cāṇakya, the
Brāhmaṇa from Takṣaśilā, the minister of king Candra-
gupta Maurya and the master of polity. He was
Vātsyāyana-the author of Kamasutra,2 Mallanāga-
the driver, the leader in battle, Kautilya-the poli-
tician,³ Cāṇakya—the moralist, Drāvila, Pakṣila—the
logician, Viṣṇugupta-the astronomer, and Angula-the
mathematician.5
1 Hemacandra in his Abhidhānacintāmaṇi, ed. by O. Böhtlingk
and Ch. Rieu, St. Petersburg, 1847, vv. 853-4.
2 See R. Shama Sastry, 'A Note on the Supposed Identity
of Vātsyāyana and Kautilya', The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic
Society, 7, pp. 210-6; H. C. Chakladar, Social Life in Ancient India,
1954, p. 24.
3 Or Kauṭalya from the name of the gotra.
4 The text has however drāmila, an inhabitant of Southern
India.
5 Trikāṇḍaśeṣa, ed. by Narayana Sinha, Benares, 1844, p. 33,
vv. 82-3 reads: vişnuguptas tu kauṇḍinyaḥ (for Kauṭilya [Sārārtha-
candrikā comm.]) . . . amśulaḥ (for angulaḥ [Sārārthacandrikā comm.]).
A. INTRODUCTION
CĀŅAKYA-VIṣŅUGUPTA—KAUŢILYA
1. Vätsyāyane mallanāgaḥ kauṭilyaś caṇakātmajaḥ
drāmilaḥ pakṣilasvāmī vişnugupto 'ngulaś ca saḥ.¹
These are the names under which one of the
greatest celebrities of India was known-Cāṇakya, the
Brāhmaṇa from Takṣaśilā, the minister of king Candra-
gupta Maurya and the master of polity. He was
Vātsyāyana-the author of Kamasutra,2 Mallanāga-
the driver, the leader in battle, Kautilya-the poli-
tician,³ Cāṇakya—the moralist, Drāvila, Pakṣila—the
logician, Viṣṇugupta-the astronomer, and Angula-the
mathematician.5
1 Hemacandra in his Abhidhānacintāmaṇi, ed. by O. Böhtlingk
and Ch. Rieu, St. Petersburg, 1847, vv. 853-4.
2 See R. Shama Sastry, 'A Note on the Supposed Identity
of Vātsyāyana and Kautilya', The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic
Society, 7, pp. 210-6; H. C. Chakladar, Social Life in Ancient India,
1954, p. 24.
3 Or Kauṭalya from the name of the gotra.
4 The text has however drāmila, an inhabitant of Southern
India.
5 Trikāṇḍaśeṣa, ed. by Narayana Sinha, Benares, 1844, p. 33,
vv. 82-3 reads: vişnuguptas tu kauṇḍinyaḥ (for Kauṭilya [Sārārtha-
candrikā comm.]) . . . amśulaḥ (for angulaḥ [Sārārthacandrikā comm.]).