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LIVES THAT INSPIRE VOLUME I LIVES THAT INSPIRE VOLUME I PUBLICATIONS DIVISION MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING GOVERNMENT OF INDIA 2016 (Saka 1938) ISBN: 978-81-230-2021-1 © Publications Division BIO-ENG-OP-TR-020-2016-17 Price: X 60.00 Published by: Additional Director General, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, Soochna Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110 003. http://www.publicationsdivision.nic.in Editing : S. Manjula, Vatica Chandra Cover Design : Rajesh Kumar Tranlated by : Pragya Paliwal Gaur, Himank Kothiyal, Anasua Banerjee Sales Centres : • Soochna Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 • Hall No. 196, Old Secretariat, Delhi-110054 • 701, B Wing, 7th Floor, Kendriya Sadan, Belapur, Navi Mumbai-400614 • 8, Esplanade East, Kolkata-700069 • ‘A’ Wing, Rajaji Bhawan, Besant Nagar, Chennai-600090 • Bihar State Co-operative Bank Building, Ashoka Rajpath, Patna-800004 • Press Road, Near Govt. Press, Thiruvananthapuram-695001. • Hall No. 1, 2nd Floor, Kendriya Bhawan, Sector H, Aliganj, Lucknow-226024 • Block 4, 1st Floor, Gruhakalpa Complex, M.G. Road, Nampally, Hyderabad-500001 • 1st Floor, ‘F’ Wing, Kendriya Sadan, Koramangala, Bangalore-560034 • Ambica Complex, 1st Floor, Paldi, Ahmedabad-380007 • House No. 07, New Colony, Chenikuthi, K.K.B. Road, Guwahati-781003 Typeset at: Print-O-World, 2579, Mandir Lane, Shadipur, New Delhi-110 008 Printed at: Viba Press Pvt. Ltd., Okhla, New Delhi - 110 020 PREFACE N ATiON-building is a long drawn-out process. A nation can be compared with the human mind. The mind is impacted upon by various kinds of influences, which are sometimes similar, at times complement each other and mutually contradictory at some other point of time. Nation-building is not done by a few prominent personalities, but it is the nation which shapes these personalities. Indeed, once moulded, the personality itself exercises its own impact on the nation. The biggest force that creates history is the people. Great men are those who guide the people on to the path of progress. Though the loftiest thoughts lie dormant in books, the colossal personality of these figures transforms these ideas into a vehicle of change. This collection comprises life-sketches of such great personalities of India, whose thoughts not only influenced the society during their times but are a source of inspiration for the country even today. All these great names are indelibly associated with the honour and identity of our country. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Public.Resource.Org https://archive.org/details/livesthatinspire01manj CONTENTS Mahavira Yugjeet Nawalpuri 1 Buddha Yugjeet Nawalpuri 8 Panini Yugjeet Nawalpuri 16 Puru Satya Sukhrayan 21 Chanakya R.N. Tiwari 25 Chandragupta Maurya R.N. Tiwari 30 Ashoka Yugjeet Nawalpuri 36 Vishnusharma R.N. Tiwari 43 Aryabhatta R.N. Tiwari 47 Nagarjuna Prabhakar Machwe 50 Samudragupta Dronveer Kohli 54 Kumaijeeva R.N. Tiwari 58 Chandragupta Vikramaditya R.N. Tiwari 62 Kalidasa P.N. Tripathi 66 Harsha Jagdish Goyal 70 Pulkeshin II Mangal Singh 75 Shankaracharya Jagannath Prabhakar 80 Aandal Sita Raman 85 Raj raj a Chola R.N. Tiwari 88