Learning Hindi Series - Chanakya (चाणक्य)

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In this post, we shall continue learning new vocabulary, reading, and understanding Hindi. We hope our series is helping you learn the language better. Today, we are using a passage about Chanakya. Chanakya was an ancient Indian polymath who was a teacher, author, strategist, philosopher, economist, jurist, and advisor to King Chandragupta Maurya. 

Chanakya, also called Kautilya or Vishnugupta, (flourished 300 BCE), a Hindu statesman and philosopher who wrote a classic treatise on polity, Artha-shastra (“The Science of Material Gain”), a compilation of almost everything that had been written in India up to his time regarding artha (property, economics, or material success).

चाणक्य

चाणक्य राजनीति, राजनैतिक कला, साहसिक और जिद्दी दृढ़ता की भावना का अवतार है| चाणक्य एक बहुत प्रतिभाशाली व्यक्ति थे| वह किसी भी लक्ष्य को प्राप्त करने में दृढ़ संकल्प से भरे थे| वह अच्छी तरह से सभी शास्त्रों या ज्ञान की शाखाओं में निपुण थे, एक विशेषज्ञ अर्थशास्त्री, ख़ासकर एक राजनेता थे | वह चार विधियों - अनुनय, फुसलाना, बुवाई कलह, और सजा या युद्ध में उस्ताद थे| वह युद्ध की रणनीति में परिपक्व थे, और बहुत बुद्धिमान  भी | “चाणक्य की रणनीति की तरह” एक अभिव्यक्ति लौकिक हो गया है|

वह बहुत ही धार्मिक थे | ज्ञान की कोई शाखा नहीं है, जिसे उन्होंने महारत हासिल नहीं हुआ था| उन्हें व्यापक रूप से अनुभव था| चाणक्या कौटिल्य नाम से भी जाने जाते थे| उन्होने अर्थ शस्त्र नाम का एक किताब का लेखन भी किया है| यहां तक कि यूरोप के नेताओं, समाजशास्त्रियों और अर्थशास्त्री इस पुस्तक का अध्ययन  करते हैं|

Chanakya

Chanakya  raaneeti, rajnaitigya kala, sahasik aur ziddi drudhata ki bhavna ka avatar hai. Chanakya ek bahut prathibhashali vyakti the. Vah kisi bhi lakshya ko prapt karne mein drudh sankalp se bhare the. vah achchi tarah se sabhi shashtrom ya gnan ki shakaom mein nipun the, ek visheshagya arthashashtri, khaaskar ek rajneta the. Vah char vidhiyom – anunay, fuslana, buwayi kalah, aur saza ya yudh mein ustaad the. Vah yudh ki ranneeti mein paripakv the, aur bahut budhiman bhi. “chanakya ki raajneeti ki tarah” ek abhivyakti laukik ho gaya hai.

Vah bahut hi dharmik the. Gnan ki koyi shaaka nahin hai, jise unhone maharat haazil nahin hua tha. Unhem vyapak roop se anubhav tha. Chanakya kautilya naam se bhi jaane jaate the. Unhone arth shashtr naam ka ek kitaab ka lekhan bhi kiya hai. Yahan tak ki europe ke netaom, samajshashtriyom aur arthshashtri is pustak ka adhyayan karte haim.

                                            

Chanakya

Chanakya is the personification of statesmanship, political craft, the spirit of adventure, and unyielding perseverance. Chanakya was a very brilliant person. He was full of determination in achieving any objective. He was well versed in all 'Shastras' or branches of knowledge, an expert economist; a statesman par excellence. He was a master in the four methods - of persuasion, enticement, sowing dissension, and punishment or war. He was mature in the strategy of war, and very intelligent. The expression "like the strategy of Chanakya" has become proverbial.

He was at the same time very religious. There was no branch of knowledge, that he had not mastered. He was widely experienced. Chanakya was also known as Kautilya. He authored the book “"Artha-shastra." Even European politicians, sociologists, and economists study this book with interest.

Vocabulary:-

English	Hindi	Transliteration
personification	अवतार	avatar
statesmanship	राजनीतिमत्ता	raajneetimatta
political craft	राजनीतिक शिल्प	raajaneetik shilp
spirit	भावना	bhavna
adventure	साहसिक	sahasik
unyielding	जिद्दी	ziddi
perseverance	दृढ़ता	drudhata
brilliant	प्रतिभाशाली	pratibhashali
determination	दृढ़ संकल्प	drudh sankalp
objective	उद्देश्य	uddyesh
well versed	अभिज्ञ	abhigya
an expert	एक विशेषज्ञ	ek visheshagya
economist	अर्थशास्त्री	arthashashtri
statesman	राजनेता	raajneta
persuasion	अनुनय	anunay
enticement	फुसलाना	fuslana
dissension	मतभेद/ कलह	matbhed/kalah
punishment	सज़ा	saja
war	युद्ध	yudh
strategy	रणनीति	rananeeti
politician	नेता	neta
sociologist	समाजशास्त्री	samajshashtri

   

Test Your Understanding:

1)      An economist is known as ------ in Hindi.

2)      चाणक्या के दूसरा नाम क्या था (Chanakya ke doosra naam kya tha)?

3)      चाणकया  किस किताब का लेखन किया है (Chanakya  kis kitaab ka lekhan kiya hai)?

4)      ‘प्रतिभाशाली’ का मतलब क्या है (pratibhashali ka matlab kya hai)?

                                                    

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