The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s1.11

c11.s1.11

"That Kauṭalya and Viṣṇugupta are other names by which Chāṇakya is known is a fact with which Oriental scholars are too familiar to doubt, and that Chāṇakya was the historical personage who put an end to the power of Nanda is a fact which is mentioned in a number of Sanskrit works." The *Viṣṇupurāṇa* (Wilson, Book IV. ch. xxiv, p. 186), Hemachandra's *Sthavirapallīcharita* or "Lives of Jaina Patriarchs", and the *Nandisūtra*, a Jaina religious work in the Prakritic language were cited by him in evidence, and these he considered to be documents of the period between the first and the second centuries A.C. And he considered these works to be "fairly reliable data for assuming that Chāṇakya lived as minister of Chandragupta in the fourth century B.C.."