भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

hated the selfless national politicians. In order to undermine their prestige,
he insulted them publicly. A really capable person was invariably an object
of his hatred and was subjected to malicious treatment.
93. From this Mahapadmanand, it is said his concubine, Mura, had the
illustrious son, Chandragupta. Some anecdotes pertaining to
Chandragupta’s childhood are available, but they are far too few and merely
hearsay stories. What appears to be certain is only this, that the cowardly
but crafty Mahapadmanand began to fear the young Chandragupta, shining
with his sharp wit, his daring and ambitious spirit, seeking to exercise his
rights as the heir to the throne, bastard as he was. He feared that under the
leadership of this unrestrained bastard son, his antagonists would not fail to
dethrone him! Mahapadmanand very well knew how his very Nanda
forerunners had vanquished the original Shishunag dynasty of Magadha and
usurped the throne! Under some such apprehension, there appears to have
occurred some clash that Mahapadmanand used as a pretext to banish
Chandragupta out of the precincts of the Magadha empire. The intervening
account is permanently lost to oblivion. Hereafter, Chandragupta makes his
appearance in the University of Taxila (Takshashila) as a royal prince
having his lessons in politics and the science and art of war. An anecdote
that is current in that region viz. that he got access to this university mainly
through the good offices of the renowned and learned Arya Chanakya may
have some grain of truth in it. Chandragupta had already been studying in
the manner described above at this university for about six or seven years
when Alexander attacked India. There, for the first time, this illustrious
disciple of Chanakya, this young Chandragupta, began to shine with his
exceptional brilliance in the sacred national conspiracy, that was being
hatched by the Indian patriots and politicians to avenge the insults heaped
on the Indian nation by the Greeks and to liberate the territory lost to them.
A Marvellous half-hour in History
94. Young Chandragupta seems to have secretly wandered through the
Greek camps in order to study the peculiar features of the Greek armoury,
the Greek military formations and war strategy. For, he was once caught by
the Greek sentries on suspicion that he was reconnoitring in the emperor’s
camp. The report reached Alexander himself, and the Macedonian emperor
summoned the disguised Indian youth to his presence. Some even think that
the said youth went to see Alexander by previous appointment.