An advisor of this polity disfigured himself by cracking his “canine teeth” to assuage his mother’s concerns about his apparently destined kingship. That advisor utilized his ability to turn one gold coin into eight to create a hoard that would fund a coup against this polity’s predecessor. A pragmatic treatise written in this empire explores open, covert, and silent as the three kinds of war, and was written by a scholar from Taxila. (15[1])(*) Megasthenes acted as an ambassador (10[1])to the court of this empire, (10[1])whose first ruler’s military contributions to a foreign ruler aided that ruler at Ipsus. After a ruler of this empire abdicated became a fasting Jain ascetic, the author of the Arthashastra, Chanakya, proceeded to advise Bindusara. For 10 points, the Nanda empire was (10[1])overthrown by what empire ruled by Chandragupta? ■END■