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CHAPTER 6
CONCLUDING REMARKS
The sum and substance of the revelation of Cāņakya through the Jaina literature can be summarized in few paragraphs with the suitable titles in the following manner - [1] Application of the two-fold methodology :
According to the Jaina philosophy a thing, person or incident can be looked at or observed from various facets, attitudes or standpoints. The nature of truth or reality is complex. For the subtler and deeper knowledge, the linear method of observation is less useful. In this book (project) twofold methodology is applied for the better revelation of the complex personality of Cāņakya.
In the initial chapters of the book, all the Hindu (Brahmanic) and Jaina (both the Svetāmbara and Digambara) references about Cāņakya are collected, arranged, translated and compared in a detailed manner.
Keeping aside the whole comparative data, again the Jaina literature is observed through the window-frame of the reputed text of Cāņakya (Kautilya) viz. the Arthaśāstra. The study of each and every aphorism is not the aim of this book. So in the perspective of the original words (and not the translation) of Kautilya, the Jaina narratives, myths, analogies and particularly the Jaina code of conduct appears altogether different. Thus the observations noted in the fifth chapter of this book is the unique outcome of the twofold methodology applied for discovering the deep connections between the Jaina literature and Arthaśāstra. [2] Māgadha-connection of the Arthaśāstra and Jaina literature :
The known confirmed history of the ancient India starts from
