Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c18.7

c18.7

The Jain story regarding Chāṇakya's plan to amass wealth is different. It was due to the insult to which his poor Brahman wife was treated by her rich relations meeting at her father's place at the wedding of her brother. The first step that he takes for the purpose is to go to Pāṭaliputra and have a share of the gifts which king Nanda was bestowing on renowned Brahmans. The story of Chāṇakya's ejection by Nanda is the same as the Buddhist, with small differences of trivial detail.