Chanakya - success is not victory

[WhiteTiger1969]

Chanakya's was believed to belong to a Choziya Brahmin from Tamil Nadu who grew up in Patna because of his father migrating to North. Check the origin and birth of Chanakya

[shahbaztherock]

I am a big fan of this show, I own all the dvds. what episode is this scene from??

[abhishekutkarsh]

All the states are below Bharat .

Vande Matram !!!!

[hindubangu]

I WAS ABT TO COMMEND THE EFFORT OF UPLOADER FOR THIS GREAT MESSAGE ! BUT, i SAW HIS COMMENT ON TAMIL...MAAN YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO THIS MESSAGE 100 TIMES TO GET IT...CHANAKYA STRUGGLED FOR WHOLE LIFE TO BRING WHOLE BHARATH TOGETHER AND YOU DIVIDE IT SAYING HE WAS TAMILIAN...WHAT A MORONIC COMMENT ! ANYWAYS. TAMILIANS DONOT CONSIDER THEMSELVES AS PART OF BHARAT ...JAAGO, UTHISHTA TAMILIAN !

[anand2676]

@hindubangu Tamilians r making wonders,,,, biggest scammers

[abhidudek]

though chanakya was black skinned...dat doesnt mean he was frm kerala or tamil nadu...he belonged to Pataliputa todays Patna in Bihar.....dont divide INDIA in da name of CHANAKYA...his dream was of UNITED INDIA..nd let it b UNITED..

[RainCastle88]

good...

[TheSkirmishes]

सच तो यह है की भारतवर्ष सदा ही गुलामी संस्कृति के अधीन ही फलाफूला उसे हमेशा ही विदेशी ताकत की ज़रुरत पड़ी चन्द्र गुप्ता मौर्या ने यूनानी ताकत से मदद ली फिर हिंदुस्तान को मुगलों ने ताकत और ऐश्वर्या से सवार तट पश्चात बर्तानिया हुकूमत ने इसे एक आधुनिक रूप दिया

भारत की मूल रूप में कोई शक्सियत नहीं क्योकि भारत लोगो में पहेले से ही जात, वर्ना, भाषा में बटा है हलाकि भारत का स्वर्णकाल यक़ीनन गुप्त काल ही है जो बिना किसी विदेशी ताकत के बिना खुद एक ताकत बना

[TheSkirmishes]

ऐसे ही एक गुप्त कालीन आधुनिक भारत की आशा करता हूँ किसी ने जान बूज कर अशोक चक्र को भारतीय चिन्न बनाया

[ThePseudoBasher]

How many people know that Chanakya was a Tamil?

[82abhilash]

@ThePseudoBasher Really?

[imanish00]

I think not others.. but you should know where Chankaya was born ..

Birth and Origin: Chanakya (c.350 - c.275 BC), also known as Ansul or Anshu or Kautilya or Vishnugupta was born in a family of Brahmin as the son of Acharya Chanak in Pataliputra, Magadh (Modern day Patna, Bihar, India.

Improve your knowledge ..

[imanish00]

@ThePseudoBasher

I think not others.. but you should know where Chankaya was born ..

Birth and Origin: Chanakya (c.350 - c.275 BC), also known as Ansul or Anshu or Kautilya or Vishnugupta was born in a family of Brahmin as the son of Acharya Chanak in Pataliputra, Magadh (Modern day Patna, Bihar, India. .. souce .. wikipedi

[loveindublin]

@ThePseudoBasher who told u?

[rintrah81]

@ThePseudoBasher Such a statement on a Chanakya video? Come now. He is talking about a united India and here you are trying to take pride in him (maybe) being a Tamil? Was he a Tamil? I would say he was. But he wasn't just a Tamil. He was a lot more than just that. If you take pride in knowing that he was Tamil, then you ought to take more pride in knowing that he was a lot more than that.

[MegaExquisite1]

I want to slap the STUPID STUPID STUPID mentalities that.. where was chanakya from ?? Tamilndu Kerala karnataka..maharashtra and where not....

GET OUT OF THIS ""DOG MENTALITY"".... SHOULD OTHERS SAY..... SHREE KRISHNA was from Gujrath, AR Rahman from Kerala, Sachin Tendulkar from Maharashtra....!! Why the fuck..you want to create any divisions ???????

WHY ?????????????

@ThePseudoBasher : Waste is your ALL education !!!!! You have to start again from scratch..!! May you read this comment on u

[OneDharmaYouMovement]

..indians as a race are ONE genetic gene pool. so they are not two races, like the white europeans and black african..so YOUR being ignorant and racist towards indians who not DOT and have NOT witnessed such racism and hatred like the american christian slave trade that existed for 400years...SO please DONT try to find reason in other culture and then try to label it as ONE.it is not one!..Indians are ONE genepool, that means Indians are a seperate people from all

[koundinya75]

@ThePseudoBasher

I know he was Indian. Am I wrong?

[s0ulfire]

@ThePseudoBasher Im sorry but Chanakya was simply Indian. You go against all his teaching to identify him by cast.

[praveenpg]

@ThePseudoBasher

Chanakya was born in Magadha which is in the current day Bihar. That would make him a Bihari.

[1983rahulsharma]

@ThePseudoBasher ur comment shows that ur superidiot of 21 century ...

[DESIJATYAMLA]

@ThePseudoBasher I am sorry - I always thought he was an INDIAN. please forgive me for my ignorance, I shall burn in Hell, that is my punishment.

[U5011453]

@ThePseudoBasher

he was from magadh. tamil wasn't in magadh

[yourdeadin]

@ThePseudoBasher tamil? you mean dravidian

[tigersoup]

@ThePseudoBasher what fucking difference does it make? the thing is he unified India to fight the west!

[ravving]

@ThePseudoBasher i dont know

[gandhrav]

@ThePseudoBasher Chanakya was from magadh. tamil wasn't in magadh. But it down't matter. He was the national hero who reunited India, otherwise greeks would have been rulling india for next 1000 years. Too bad we had YOUR mentality people who diveded and cared for their own kindgdom only when Muslim started to invade India at 638AD who finally succeeded in 712AD. The took more than 100,000 slaves from India in 712 when Arab finally won Sindh State after 80 years of continuous attack.

[indrajeet]

@gandhrav in the battle of rajesthan the Rajput Confederation defeated the arabs and kept invasion at bay for 300 years.

[nirmant]

@ThePseudoBasher haha biggest joke in the world he was from Magadh son of Chanak a son of kautiliya who studied in Taxila and fought for India and introduced Arthashatra ok .and about Tamilian i know much as i have stayed in Chennai for 25yrsand postgraduate in history any great personality of India you call them he belonged to Tamilnadu you people even say that Cleopatra was from Tamilnadu . come on go study your history lesson properly ,iam sure you would have selpt in your history class

[indrajeet]

@ThePseudoBasher no, he was from maghad

[OneDharmaYouMovement]

@ThePseudoBasher he is an indian brother a dharmic soul thats all. that matters.

[22chamkila]

@ThePseudoBasher I know that he was Indian, a true Indian. All other things are secondary.

[kmbhats]

Don't think so. That he has Dravidian roots is only a suggestion and never supported by facts. Everything we know about him indicates that he is from Pataliputra with deep family roots there. He is truly the first unifier of India and saw himself as an Indian, not even Magadhan. Tamilians or Dravidians are likely be the original inhabitants of the Indus Valley, pushed down to the South.

[mgoyal565]

चाणक्य-- हमारे देश के अत्यन्त महान युगपुरुष थे | लेकिन दुःख की बात यह है कि-- उनके विषय में सही, प्रामाणिक और सम्पूर्ण जानकारी देने वाली कोई भी सामग्री या पुस्तक उपलब्ध नहीं है | केवल यही धारावाहिक ऐसा था जिसमें चाणक्य के विषय में कई जानकारियाँ दी गई थीं लेकिन इस धारावाहिक में भी सभी जानकारियाँ नहीं दी गई थीं (जैसे--- इस धारावाहिक में सेल्यूकस के आक्रमण को नहीं दिखाया गया था) |

[mgoyal565]

अब---- रोजगार प्रकाशन, मथुरा (उत्तर प्रदेश) (भारत) पिनकोड-- २८१००१ ---- ने एक पुस्तक प्रकाशित की है जिसका नाम है---- "सम्पूर्ण चाणक्य नीति" |

इस पुस्तक में चाणक्य की पूर्णत: सही, प्रामाणिक और सम्पूर्ण जीवनी दी गई है | साथ ही-- चाणक्य द्वारा लिखी गई 'चाणक्य नीति' की भी हिन्दी में बहुत अच्छी व्याख्या की गई है | प्रत्येक देशभक्त व्यक्ति को यह पुस्तक अवश्य ही पढनी चाहिये |

मिलते-जुलते नाम वाली नकली पुस्तकों को न खरीदें | केवल---- रोजगार प्रकाशन, मथुरा---- द्वारा प्रकाशित पुस्तक ही खरीदें |

[saurabhCherished]

Unfortunately most of people dont speak such Sanskritized Language.

[hiavinash1]

Can anyone tell who played Dhananand. Acted well. Have'nt seen him later in any drama/movie/serial.

[mutinyvizier]

Thanks, apology appreciated but not necessary - you were testing me on shastra, and it is my job to respond as best I can. Better any day to be brave, sincere, direct, and arrogant, than be manipulative, hypocritical, backstabbing, and humble.

[abhisheksuraj]

Do we have Shashtras available on the net? What are the differences between Shashtras and Vedas? How many such books are there in Hinduism, and how many are really important for a person, who wants to tread a path of enlightenment? Are these books available in english or hindi (I cant read sanskrit)?

(Not sure if you are the right person to ask these questions, but you are surely a 'better' person than me with regard to the knowledge in the above mentioned areas)

[mutinyvizier]

Sanskrit text of vedas - sanskritweb . net

English translations - sacred-texts . com / hin / - Rg is Griffith translation - dated but relevant

Vedas are sruti - revelation to rishis - others including itihasas, puranas etc are smritis.

Sastras are broadly the system of interpreting "vedic" injunctions through dharma sutras, srautas, darsanas, vedangas, smritis, and to an extent certain puranas.

Including Agamas, tarka, mimamsas, and Tantra texts, the volume of material is huge.

[mutinyvizier]

Though the volume of materials is huge, it is enough if the 10 principal Upanishads and Gita are known, since they are the kernel of orthodox Vedic revelation - If you wish you may also study Brahma sutras with Badarayana commentary, and Ramanujacaryas Sri Bhashya.

Easiest is path of bhakti - safe way with complete protection from sadguru, no scope for ego to rise

Chaitanya, Namdev, Tukaram, Andal, Mira, Allamma Prabhu, Sri Raghavendra , Ramana, Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Yogananda, endless

[mutinyvizier]

@abhisheksuraj - none is 'better' - all are equal.

There are countless books in both Hindi and English - but don't read too many books - I spent 15 years reading books, and performed nitya and naimittika karmas - I'm none the worse for it, but it is not really necessary.

A simple introduction will whet the appetite - always better to work spirituality through the heart, than the head - heart responds better and lessons will not leave you.

If you are Vaishnava, then Bhagavata Purana is good.

[anjalisharma1206]

@mutinyvizier u mean "brave, sincere, direct and humble" right?

[82abhilash]

There is a scene, in the series, before this one. Chankya goes to a Buddhist monk with tears in his eyes. Dhananda has been overthrown but there has been much suffering and bloodshed. The game of politics is very dirty. He want to forsake everything, like Arjuna wanted to at Kurukshetra. The monk tells him that his duty is his only path to salvation and that puts him back on track.

[mutinyvizier]

@82abhilash

The serial is a work of fiction that allows creative latitude - just as the Amar Chitra Katha comic gave us a dramatised version of Chanakya, so too does Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, director and actor in his admirable serial.

We must be concerned only with his aphorisms and maxims preserved as text, and must avoid extrapolating upon them any romantic notions of the events in Chanakya's life, except those that withstand rigorous scholastic and historical scrutiny.

[82abhilash]

Chandraprakash Dwivedi has gone to great pains to make this series historically accurate. He is no simple entertainer. He is an intellect who gave up the practice of medicine for learning India culture. His works are usually very well researched, his interpretations extremely insightful. I think it extremely plausible.

It is well known in the military circles these days about the price one pays for defeating one's enemy. Chanakya must have known it too.

[mutinyvizier]

Regardless of my respect for Dr Dwivedi, the fact remains very little is known about the historical Chanakya- whether Vishnugupta is identical with him, or has been collated later on, as a redactor, eg the several Yaskas, Vyasas, Sankaras, and Patanjalis.

When examining texts we, must adhere to scholastic exactitude by refering only to primary texts, in this case the Artha Sastra (and to an extent the Neeti Sastra).

There are at least a dozen parts of India that claim Chankya as their own.

[82abhilash]

If very little is known about him then what guarantee do you have that he even wrote that book called Artha Sastra? It is just a name on a cover. Any body with any name could have written it and put any name on the cover. It could be just a pen name.

[82abhilash]

It happend to Chanakya. But he thought it was still a better situation than before. I agree. Me suffering from my vices is better than me suffering from somebody else's vices.

[bel3235]

"respondindia" i am 100 % agree with you. Our culture , Traditio, History is so great but we didn't nothing for our country. Harama samaj (today) eik sada hua samaj hai jissey badboo, ginn aati hai par kisi ko koi farq nahi. JUst closed the eyes en walk

[82abhilash]

If you post your comment here, like this respondindia will not know about it. Reply to one of his comments and he will know. Click on the reply link.

[dalrekantarah]

anybody know where i can find the book in english translation this is the chanakya / kautilya ?

[82abhilash]

You can actually buy this series on DVD. It comes with English subtitles. I have never come across English translations of Chanakya's books. Although I have come across english quotations from his books. So I am sure they have been translated. But they are difficult to find.

[mycroftc]

Chanakya's book Arthashastra is widely available, I think Penguin has a paperback.

[puneet1849]

volume is tool low, plz amplify so everyone can hear it

[82abhilash]

No, let them strain to hear every word. They will do it if they think it is worth it.

[nach143]

pjaiman...i would like 2 comment:

We should be proud that such a legend was born in INDIA..and it is WE who should make him famous ...isn't it true?Who says only great persons are born in west..?

[respondindia]

Proud that such a legendry people are born in India but is only let down by blind and ignorant people of today. By this I mean Indian people of today who are so busy giving and taking bribes and going to bollywood instead of clearing the street of India. You are proud of these legends but what have you done for India today? Indian people today should hang their head in shame. India has give the world a lot more then any other but what has give it self? Nothing

[nprakashprasad]

Who told you that Chanikya is not honored in India. You will find a lot of people honouring him.

[respondindia]

I have alot of mates in india and for every 100 people only 1 knows chanikya. Proud that such a legendry people are born in India but is only let down by blind and ignorant people of today. I mean Indian people of today who are so busy giving and taking bribes and going to bollywood instead of clearing the street of India. You are proud of these legends but what have you done for India today? India has give the world a lot more then any other but what has give it self?

[SpreadLoveAndPeace]

this century ??

[RidgeEvan]

@pjaiman

You are correct, but the problem is that, Great leaders like these get born in India only. Pple from Europe may have money/brain but this kind of higher mindset,they don't have, Its not their fault as they believe that mind is the greatest power on earth, but in India faith and devotion is the greatest power, it does have many failures ! but truth is always truth.

[rintrah81]

@RidgeEvan That is a very misguided generalization of western thought. Albeit one could argue that western through might have had, over many years' interaction, been influenced by some Eastern thinking, it is wrong to assume that all of west considers the mind the greatest power. The force of religion and faith is not obsolete in western thought and history. Rather, it is significantly prominent and therefore any research which fails to find it is severely mistaken.

[vaibhavcj676]

@pjaiman he was 300 yrs b4 christ... not dis century



[sackingsrock]

voice is too low, thnx for posting tho

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[anshul2001anshul]

what dhanadna says is so hauntinlgyl true. every age has its own dhananada but where is a vishnugupt today?

[rintrah81]

you my friend, you are today's vishnugupt.

[hereaminow]

VERY WELL SAID

[hereaminow]

INDEED, IT'S YOU

[respondindia]

true and proud that such a legendry people are born in India but is only let down by blind and ignorant people of today. By this I mean Indian people of today who are so busy giving and taking bribes and going to bollywood instead of clearing the street of India. You are proud of these legends but what have you done for India today? Indian people today should hang their head in shame. India has give the world a lot more then any other but what has give it self? Nothing

[xeta757]

hey dude,

Can ya post the video after this , it stops at a very interesting moment.

Cheers,

XETA

[82abhilash]

There is nothing much after it. They king abdicates. And then they show a scene in which he leaves for the forest.

[xeta757]

Thanks!

[kunal24259]

most talentented and inspiring personality in the history of india...whatever he said whatever he did.. no matter wheather it is right or wrong.. its the fact..