• 0.1 INTRODUCTION
• 0.2 PROLOGUE: Pratiṣṭhāna Kāṇḍa
• 1 Takṣaśila Kāṇḍa (The Taxila Chapter). In a world where the Vedic light appears to be dying, crushed from both sides by the Magadhas and the Persians, a young Cāṇakya resolves to make some changes.
  • 1.1 Neti Kautilyaḥ! (“No, says Kautilya”)
  • 1.2 Of picking one’s battles
  • 1.3 The enemy of my enemy
  • 1.4 Deception games
  • 1.5 The art of manipulation
  • 1.6 Clandestine operations
  • 1.7 The art of double crossing
  • 1.8 Mundia and modia
  • 1.9 Reductionism
  • 1.10 Hero worship
  • 1.11 Availing opportunities
• 2 Mathura Kāṇḍa (The Mathura Chapter). Cāṇakya makes contact the mysterious Order of Saṅkarṣaṇa, and seeks to be titled as their chosen hero. But for that he must first rise as a statesman, plotting, with his new aides, some of his first schemes to manipulate the great empires of his day.
  • 2.1 Motivated questionnaire
  • 2.2 Pavel Morozov
  • 2.3 Work experience
  • 2.4 The Manhattan Project
  • 2.5 Cutting the Gordian knot
• 3 Yavana Kāṇḍa (The Hellenic Chapter). A new player appears on the scene, an ambitious conqueror from a distant land called Macedon. But Cāṇakya intends to turn this into an opportunity, and ensure that the fruits of the newcomer’s efforts will be solely reaped by Candragupta.
  • 3.1 Signalling networks
  • 3.2 Learning to lose
  • 3.3 Fake rebelliousness
  • 3.4 Coalitions
  • 3.5 The (in)validity of feelings
  • 3.6 Image consciousness
  • 3.7 Synecdoche
  • 3.8 Speaking ill of the dead
  • 3.9 Showing empathy
  • 3.10 Hell
  • 3.11 Gifting knives
  • 3.12 Linus’s law
• 4 Āryāvarta Kāṇḍa (The Central Country Chapter). Instead of enjoying his well-fought win, Cāṇakya decides to stake it all in the most unhinged gamble any man had ever took. Will he extract the nectar of victory from the sea of tumult?
  • 4.1 Putting in the effort
  • 4.2 Repugnant alliances
  • …
• 5 Magadha Kāṇḍa (The Magadha Chapter). Yes. He did.
  • …
• 6 Dakṣiṇapatha Kāṇḍa (The Deccan Chapter). But the celebrations are short-lived.
  • …
• 7 Uttara Kāṇḍa (Epilogue). Faced with his own eventual mortality, Cāṇakya decides to have as many children as possible, so each generation may have at least one of him. But what if the world was faced with a man who possessed all of Cāṇakya’s qualities, except moral direction?
  • …
• Supplements
  • Vāsudeva
    • 1.1_catapult
    • 1.2_rebels
    • 1.3_coup
    • 1.4_coronation
    • 1.5_birth
    • 2.1_childhood
    • 2.2_licchavi
    • 2.3_mother
    • 2.4_father
    • 2.5_wife
    • 2.6_letter
    • 2.7_ayodhya_1
    • 2.7_ayodhya_2
    • 2.8_death
  • Dāśarājña
  • The Men who Built India
  • The Great Indian Civil War
  • Delhi 1200 BC
  • Age of Iron
  • The Man who Built Civilization
• Special
  • quotes
    • arthashastra
    • canakya_niti
    • greek
    • misc
    • full_page_vizhdam (quotes from Baba NiṣādaHermaphroditarchyaṃśa aka Baba Srajma, not any primary source)
    • quotable (quotes from Baba NiṣādaHermaphroditarchyaṃśa aka Baba Srajma, not any primary source)
  • … (more, navigate through the folders to find as it’s too much to maintain)

Finishing this book is currently very low on my list of priorities. If any of you are some really good writers, and want to contribute in line with the plot outline in the below links — send in some contributions via a Github pull request (maybe send some previous writing sample in advance so I can tell you beforehand if I’m likely to accept your PR).

• TODO
• outline
• lore
• rough notes folder (access through obsidian or github, not accessible from the website).