There are many interesting stories about how Kautilya found Chandragupta Maurya. One of them is that one day while roaming the streets of Pataliputra's suburbs, Kautilya saw few boys playing in a nearby park. These boys were trying to enact a royal court room environment. One of them was adamant on playing the role of the king.
Kautilya stood there watching those boys play. After sometime the boy sitting as the king delivered strange decisions regarding various mock court room cases.
Kautilya was highly impressed he immediately went to his house and impressed upon his poverty stricken mother to send the boy with him to Taxila to study further. Later on the boy grew up to become Chandragupta Maurya, the first emperor of India.
