Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c4.61

c4.61

Thus Chāṇakya could not do better for the education of his youthful protege than to place him at Taxila for the purpose. An eight years' education at its military school in the stimulating company of so many princely pupils must have made him a master of the military sciences and arts of the days and gave him the best possible preparation and equipment for the great task to which Chandragupta was consecrated by his guardian, Chāṇakya.