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Chāṇakya's teeth were therefore broken and it was prophesied that he will rule through another.

Chanakya was born with a complete set of teeth, a sign that he would become king, which is inappropriate for a Brahmin like Chanakya.

Trautmann lists the following elements as common to different forms of the Chanakya legend : His works were lost near the end of the Gupta dynasty and not rediscovered until 1915. Chanakya was a teacher in Takṣaśila, an ancient centre of learning, and was responsible for the creation of Mauryan empire, the first of its kind on the Indian subcontinent.

In the Western world, he has been referred to as The Indian Machiavelli, although Chanakya's works predate Machiavelli's by about 1,800 years. Chanakya has been considered as the pioneer of the field of economics and political science. It is important to identify Chanakya as a great Indian because his cultural significance has reached far and wide, and his words are just as internalised in other parts of South Asia. Traditionally, Chanakya is also identified by the names Kauṭilya and Vishnugupta Sharma, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise called Arthaśāstra. 340–293 BCE), and generally considered to be the architect of his rise to power. 370–283 BCE) was a teacher to the first MauryaEmperor Chandragupta (c.