The Mauryan Polity c12.83

c12.83

To repeat the remark of Dr. Winternitz again “the very name Kauṭilya never called Cāṇakya and only once Viṣṇugupta raises great doubts.”⁵ There seems to be no necessity for a doubt for obvious reasons. It has been already shown that Kauṭilya with vowel ‘i’ in the middle is a misspelling and Kauṭalya with vowel ‘a’ is the right spelling. Viṣṇugupta is his own name perhaps given by