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[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

Your entire rebuttal collapses under one basic mistake - you are confusing the silence of Mauryan inscriptions with the non-existence of Mauryan individuals. Ashoka never names a single minister, general, or court advisor in his edicts either - not even one - does it mean they didn't exist??

Demanding that Chanakya alone must appear in inscriptions isn’t historical reasoning, it’s just your refusal to accept facts. For that matter, Megasthenes doesn’t name a single Mauryan administrator either; so by that logic, did the entire Mauryan bureaucracy who ran the largest empire in India never exist?

Ancient inscriptions were not LinkedIn profiles, and demanding contemporaneous paperwork to prove a specific minister is the kind of argument that would erase Socrates, Pythagoras, Confucius, Laozi, and half of world antiquity.

The irony is this, Chanakya's existence is actually more well-attested than many world figures whose existence nobody questions. We have a signed political treatise naming its author as “Viśnugupta Kautilya,” preserved across multiple manuscript traditions; we have Buddhist chronicles, Jain histories, Hindu nīti texts, Gupta-era political drama, Kashmir narrative literature, and even the Spitzer Manuscript referencing his work from a Buddhist monastery in Kizil - all converging on one man performing one set of political deeds. This is far stronger attestation than we have for Pythagoras, Laozi, Zoroaster, Euclid, or even early Confucius. None of these figures have contemporaneous inscriptions, none left signed works, and most survive only in texts written centuries later by a single tradition. Chanakya, by contrast, is remembered by three competing religious communities and multiple regions with remarkable consistency.

If we apply your same hyper-skeptical standard to deny Chanakya's historicity to other ancient figures, half of world history would cease to exist. Socrates has no contemporary documentation, Buddha’s iconography and earliest biographies are centuries later, Confucius’ life is reconstructed from texts written long after his death, & Zoroaster is almost entirely post-memory. Yet historians accept all of them as real because cross-textual convergence indicates historical reality. By that yardstick, Chanakya is one of the best attested state-builders of the ancient world.

The burden of proof is not on me but on people like you who are trying to erase him despite mountains of evidence that would easily certify any other ancient figure as real.

[अनिरुद्ध @aniruddhand]

@ArchitectRupa Yes, I always wondered how in Marathi they write “स्वयंपाक्”, which is pure Sanskrit, but say/pronounce it as स्वैपाक्

[अनिरुद्ध @aniruddhand]

@ArchitectRupa Is Sanskrit’s “चकास्” (to shine) the root of jhag? With तृतीयोऽतिशयः rule ज replacing च indicates आधिक्य. Mumbai’s slang - जक्कास मामू - also would have originated from that root?

[FinFloww @FinFloww]

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[Vijay Patel @vijaygajera]

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[Nanjesh Patel @nanjeshpatel]

Saving the best for the last.

Many great artisans have always credited their work as Bhagwan's handiwork.. listen to what Arun avaru had to say.

Not quoting, just watch.

PS: This interview was before his Murti was selected.

5/5

[তীক্ষ্ণদংষ্ট্রঃ || तीक्ष्णदंष्ट्रः @shardula23]

The other Rāmlala vigraha that was not selected

[Ravisutanjani @Ravisutanjani]

This is Peak Digital India Moment 😂🇮🇳🚀

[Gautam R. Desiraju🇮🇳 @GautamDesiraju]

Moon meetha karo!

[GemsOfINDOLOGY @GemsOfINDOLOGY]

Unearthed in the ancient Thar desert of Bharat: a 167 million year old earliest 𝐯𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫 🦕 named 'Tharosaurus indicus'. It's a groundbreaking discovery in Bhartiya #History! 🇮🇳

#Bharat may have a critical role in evolution of #Dinosaurs 🦕 the studies by IIT shows.

Pic 🖼️ representational #Archaeology

[अनिरुद्ध @aniruddhand]

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[N R Deshpande @desh6]

ನಮ್ಮ ಶಾಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಮಂತ್ರ ಪ್ರತಿನಿತ್ಯ ಸಾಯಂಕಾಲದ ಸಭೆ (ಅಸೆಂಬ್ಲಿ)ಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಳುವ ಪರಿಪಾಠ ಇದೆ.

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Watch: EAM Jaishankar explains diplomacy in Mahabharat terms:
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-Kurukshetra: Multipolar India
-NAM: Balarama, Rukma
-Arun: Emotionally interdependent
-Strategic patience: Krishna forgiving Shishupal several times

[Jonathan J. Crabtree - ZERO FEAR MATH @jcrabtree]

FUN🤣
Are YOU smarter than #AI?

Sanjay's dad has 2 kids. One is called Pardeep. What's the other called?

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It is not specified what the name of the other child of Sanjay's father is😯

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[Florin Pop 👨🏻‍💻 @FlorinPop17]

Devs be like...

[Prof. C. K. Raju @CKRaju14]

1. Primitive Greek/Roman arithmetic lacked √. Term for √2 is SURD from Latin surdus = DEAF bcoz Europe got √ from Arabs (pic, OED).

Why DEAF?

Bcoz Arabs got it from India. In शुल्ब सूत्र √2 = DIAGONAL (कर्ण) of unit square. But कर्ण also means ear, hence bad कर्ण = deaf!🤣

[It's FOSS @Itsfoss]

Accurate? 😄

[Vishweshwar Bhat @VishweshwarBhat]

This is called common sense!