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[edit] Content and style

This is a very flimsy article. If you compare it to the Machiavelli piece - which links to it - it's disgracefully thin on Chanakya's philosophy and writings. I'm no expert, sadly, but can anyone make it slightly more intellectually credible? -- TinaSparkle 19:31, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

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Where does the second paragraph come from? It seems like somebody got carried away with the whole Chanakya thing.

[edit] Chanakya's Death

The article is flawed in both it's content as well as the structure.

[edit] Nehru's description of Chanakya

Even though Nehru's desciption of Chanakya is mentioned, the text following is very different from what Nehru has written.

The timing mentioned about Sun-Tzu in this article, around 3-century BC, is different from that mentioned in the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-Tzu ... some other books say Sun-Tzu is around 6-century BC... please correct.

[edit] Amar Chitra Katha

The Amar chitra KAtha series has a book on Chanakya's story more accurate and interesting than the one provided. I will try to revamp section soon.Bakaman _Bakatalk 02:06, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

It would be more encyclopedic to detail the differences between various versions of the Chanakya legend as they appear in different primary sources (i.e. the Parishista Parvan version, the Pali version, etc.) instead of presenting a single version from, well, a comic book.

My source was Thomas Trautmann's Kautilya and the Arthashastra. He gives fairly complete accounts of the Parishista Parvan version and the Pali version, a very different Kashmiri version, and the Mudrarakshasa.

Hemachandra and the Pali version give two different birthplaces and the Wikipedia article initially gave another. The article must acknowledge the differing versions rather than pretend they all agree.

CiteCop 02:44, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Country?

No where in this article does it reference where he lived, was born or what nationality he is. Maybe this would be good to put in the introduction NinjaKid 15:20, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Magadha rajya, India

[edit] Date of death - article contradicts itself

The date of his death is mentioned as 283 BC at the beginning and 293 BC somewhere in between. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.37.19.80 (talk) 16:44, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

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[edit] Eurocentric sobriquets for Indian entities

Telugu: The Italian of the East
Chanakya: The Indian Machiavelli
Samudragupta: The Napolean of India

We don't need such nonsensical Euro chauvinist sobriquets and titles for our entities. What about calling Italian as the 'Telugu of the West'? Maquahuitl^talk! 09:17, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

I have changed the language.--ÆN↑Þƺ§®»Ŧ 16:47, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

And By the way, while the term "Indian Machiavelli" has a reference as the title of a book, I have kept it. The other two: "The Italian of the East" and "Napolean of India" are just idiotic and ridiculous.--ÆN↑Þƺ§®»Ŧ 16:47, 9 March 2008 (UTC)