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 | | Chandragupta's counselor and advisor was his adoptive father, Kautilya, who is said to have kept Chandragupta's youthful impulses in check and to have been learned in medicine, Hellenism and Zoroastrianism. |
 | | Chandragupta, in accordance with the views of Kautilya, sent an army of infantry, cavalry, many chariots and elephants to the Indus Valley, extending his rule there and beyond, into the Hindu Kush. |
 | | Chandragupta's capital was Pataliputra, a city nine by two miles, surrounded by walls of timber, 570 towers, a moat 900 feet wide and 30 feet deep. |
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