Before knowing about Maharaj, let us see ‘How to identify an ideal king?‘
Chanakya’s assessment of the ideal king is documented in the book ‘Kautilya’.
Here we will briefly review that assessment. Knowing about these assessments will help us understand whether Chhatrapati was an ideal king or not. I am not only sure, but I believe, that all the members of the society who have hatred towards Chhatrapati, all their hatreds, all their doubts, all their doubts about character, all their confusions will be completely destroyed after going through the Kautilya. In fact, to shut the mouths of those fools, I am of the honest and firm opinion that this evaluation, as well as our introduction to the Maharaj in the next articles and our connection with the biography of the Maharaj in the next articles, will be suffice. But I would like to tell you that there is no evidence of any connection between Maharaj and this book i.e. Kautilya or Maharaj read this book, came anywhere in any historical documents or proofs. However, some people after reading the following text will form their own opinion that Maharaj became such a great king because he read this book and practiced it. So it is not so. It is certain that if a king becomes an ideal as given in Kautilya, he can surely become a world champion. But this book should not have been read by Maharaj, in fact there is no possibility that even Maharaj to have an idea of such kind of book. Chhatrapati were really like the ideal king of Kautilya. It is like that the qualities of an ideal king were already intended for Maharaj in Kautilya.
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