Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c5.2

c5.2

**First Meeting of Chanakya and Chandragupta.** We have already seen the circumstances under which Chāṇakya and Chandragupta met for the first time in their lives. That meeting was a most fateful meeting fraught with immense consequences not merely to their personal history, but also to the history of their country. For Chandragupta it proved to be the turning-point in his life. No longer was he to live the insecure life of a hunter in the obscurity of wilderness. He was now to live the cultured life of a citizen, receiving the highest possible education of the times at India’s greatest seat of learning at far-off Taxila, and preparing for one of the biggest enterprises in history. But before dealing with the details of his political career, it is necessary to know the details of the circumstances which led up to the fateful meeting of Chāṇakya and Chandragupta in the vicinity of far-off Pāṭaliputra.