Chanakya Neeti

Chanakya is among the most celebrated thinkers in Indian history, a scholar and statesman also known as Kautilya or Vishnu Gupta. He taught economics and political science at the ancient university of Takshashila. He helped Chandragupta Maurya rise to power, and rather than take the throne himself, he placed the young man on it and served as his chief counsellor. This book gathers his treatise on a well-ordered life, which reflects his close study of Indian ways of living. Its strategies are presented as a path to discipline and planning, with the promise that success follows when they are applied in any area of life. Chanakya also wrote aphorisms, short pointed sayings on conduct that he used to train Chandragupta and his chosen students in governing. The compilers have brought together the treatise and these sutras in one volume, offering modern readers his principles in plain language.