Re: The Buddha’s alms bowl
Alexander invaded the land of King Porus, khatri caste sood, Chankya was teacher at that time in Taxila, he went to magadh king,Nanda and asked to save taxila from “mlecchas”, maharaja nanda asked his gaurd to throw chankya out holding his chhoti, chhoti is pandit’s pride:), Chankya swore to take revenge, he came to the market of Patliputra(patna) and bought a boy for four gold coins and took that boy to Taxila and later that boy was called Chandragupta maurya:) who eliminated Nanda empire. Once during a heated debate Chankya said to Chandragupta that he bought him for four gold coins:), he wrote arthashastra in Taxila.
In kashmiri folklore, it is said once a thorn entered in his feet, to punish the tree he smeared it with buttermilk/chaanch so that ants come for buttermilk and destroy the small tree:(
the word Kautilya is often believed to originate from Kutil-ah, means the bad but intelligent person:)