The scene now opens with special entente with virochak, son of the deceased king Poras for jointly ruling the kingdom with Chandragupta on an equally shared bases. This is agreed and chanakyas plans a pincer movement's of troops with an element of surprise into Patallali putra. Emperor Nanda and quen Suvasini are caught totally unawares. The royal couple while fleeing the capital in disguise is discovered and Nanda killed with a poison arrow obviously, in Chanakya's grand stratagem, honesty and humanity come only next to the "empire". A squirming Chandragupta accuses Chanakya to have a heart of stone.
The bereaved Quine spurns both chanakyas offer, and Malayaketu's more politically motivated offer to marriage and seeks refuses in the Buddhist monastery. In a last ancounter with Suvasini, now a Bhlkshuni (nun) Chandragupta, Wile looking for patronage of the Buddhist songha (organization), share his personal disillusionment with grand stand politics with her. In a last act of diplomatic skullduggery Chanakya prevent raksha from feeling and instead, persuades him to utillse his emperls talent in the service of noe emperor Chandragupta his erstwhile carchenemy.
As Nehru summarises like Machiavelli in Europe, Chanakya was bold and scheming proud and revengeful, never forget his purpose, availing himself of every device to delude and defeat the enemy. He said with the reins of the empire in his hands and looked upon the empror more as a beloved people then as a master. Chanakya's final victory was obtained by sowing discord in enemy's ranks. At the victorious movement, he induced Chandragupta to handover the insignia of his own hi office to the rival prime minister, rakshasa, whos intelegent and loyalty to his old cheaf nanda had impressed him gridy. So the story ends: not in the bitterness of defeat and humiliation, but in reconciliation and in laying the form and enduring foundation of a state. The curtain is drawn when Chanakya demits office. A Nehru's worlds simple
