Betwixt Chanakya and the Nanda’s Nightfall

Acrylic on Italian Paper

110H x 150W cm

2022

This painting shows the 3rd/4th century BCE ancient Indian master of statecraft, strategy, geopolitics, alchemy and much much more, foreshadowing the imminent demise of the Nanda Empire with his close allies and associates.

Chanakya aided the rise of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya, who founded the Maurya Empire in 322 BCE.