Public Administration in Ancient India c10.34

c10.34

¹ In Mudrā-Rākshasa, Chānakya always addresses Chandragupta as ‘Vrishala’ (i.e. Sūdra). Rākshasa, the Prime Minister of the Nanda Kings, addressing the goddess of royal power in a soliloquy, asks: “Was there no chief of noble blood to win thy fickle smiles, that thou must elevate a base-born outcast to imperial sway?” Act II. (Wilson’s trans.)