Talk:Rakshasa (amatya)

Kathyayana
Please provide a decent source for the claim that Rakshasa was a historical person, or that his birth/real name was Kathyayana. Have a look at WP:RS (and WP:HISTRS in particular for history-related articles). The sources that you've added are not WP:RS-compliant. E.g.


 * Chanakya Kautilya: Understanding the Colossal Genius is self-published (the author is founder of the publishing company), and the author is not a historian or qualified academic. Moreover, the book borrows information from Wikipedia (for example, see page 8), and is not acceptable per WP:CIRCULAR
 * Chanakya and the Art of War is authored by a 'management thinker', not a historian or qualified academic
 * Mahamatya Chankaya (Ashwini Parashar) and Chanakya (B. K. Chaturvedi) are not scholarly works either, and Diamond Pocket Books is not a great publisher

Another source cited by you - Hinduism and the Ethics of Warfare in South Asia (p. 62) - explicitly calls Mudrarakshasa a fictional political drama: being based on historical events doesn't make it historically accurate.

Also, please don't delete 'a' at the end of Sanskrit names, as you did here. Have a look at Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages. utcursch &#124; talk 20:59, 28 June 2021 (UTC)