Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c4.48

c4.48

On the whole, it is thus clear that beyond the mere names of Nanda, Chāṇakya, and Chandragupta, there is hardly any link of connexion between the tradition of the Kashmir texts and that of the *Mudrārākshasa* which is very widely and wrongly supposed to have been based upon either the *Bṛihat-kathā* of Guṇāḍhya, or its later Kashmir redaction, or even the *Bṛihatkathāmañjarī*. The Kashmir tradition moves on different lines altogether, and has hardly any points of contact with the *Mudrārākshasa* story [C. D. Chatterji in *Indian Culture*, Vol. I. pp. 210 ff.].