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

the smaller monarchies and republics and to forge out of them, a centralized
unitary and strong empire.
For the Entire Undivided India
108A. But there was not a single Indian monarchy or republic throughout
the whole of the region right from Gandhar, Punjab to the Indus delta,
which could execute this plan of Chanakya, who had already appraised
their capability and inclination. Naturally, his next choice fell on the only
mighty empire of North India, namely Magadha. His head full of plans for
the future Indian revolution, Arya Chanakya came again to Magadha in
order to study secretly the political situation, visiting every place right from
a poor man’s cottage to the royal palace. As such, he was trying to get
access to the King’s court on some pretext or the other. When the question
of the appointment of Arya Chanakya as the Chairman of the ‘Grants’
Department’ (दानाध्यक्ष) was mooted, Nanda did not object to it, because
till then, he had known nothing else of Arya Chanakya, but of his
scholarship. This appointment greatly helped Arya Chanakya perfect his
secret revolutionary plans.
109. But before long, Emperor Nanda had reports that Arya Chanakya
was not a scholar pure and simple, but an expert organiser of secret plots
and was at that time busy plotting against him. Enraged at this, he publicly
insulted Arya Chanakya as already told before, deprived him of his
authority as the Chairman of the Grant’s Department, and expelled him out
of his imperial precincts. Being thus outlawed, Chanakya returned again to
Taxila.
110. In the meanwhile, the young bastard son Chandragupta, being exiled,
as has been already told, from the Magadhan court by Emperor Nanda,
went to Taxila and joined Chanakya—an incident that proved most
favourable to that patriot’s ambitious plans of establishing an all-India
empire.
Why did Chanakya back Chandragupta alone?
111. If he were to dethrone the weak and wicked Nanda, and crown in his
place on the throne of the Magadha empire any outsider, the tradition-
loving important persons from amongst the feudatories, the Indian princes
and even the common people would probably have opposed vehemently,
even though the chosen person had been endowed with the most excellent
qualities, whereas Chandragupta, though not a lawful royal prince, had yet
some native blood-relation to the throne as the bastard son of the Emperor