Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c18.6

c18.6

The Buddhist story of Chāṇakya's teeth is mentioned but with different details. Chāṇakya was born with all his teeth complete. This was taken as a promise of royalty which alarmed his too religious father as a source of sin leading to hell. So he had his son's teeth broken out. But still the monks foretold that he would rule by proxy.