Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c5.4

c5.4

It is an extraordinary compliment paid to the status of Pāṭaliputra as the intellectual capital of India in those days when a scholar of encyclopaedic learning like Chāṇakya, himself the product of one of the greatest centres of learning like Takshaśilā, should seek to win fresh laurels for his learning at this far-off city in eastern India.