ANCIENT INDIA-7 MAURYAN EMPIRE

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  • THE MAURYA EMPIRE (322-185 BC)
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  • Chandragupta Maurya was the founder the Maurya Empire with the help of Chanakya (author of the Arthashstra).  
  • He defeated the king  Dhanananda.
  • He conquered the Magadha kingdom and established his capital at Pataliputra.  (now Patna).
  • Maurya Empire was the largest empire of world at that time.
  • It extended from the Himalayas in the north to the Mahisur and Madras in the south and from Assam in the east  to the Balochistan in the west.
  • Seleucus I sent Magasthenes (author of the Indika) as his ambassador to the court of Chandragupta Maurya in Pataliputra
  • Megastanese stayed in India for 9 years and written the great book named Indica
  • He mentioned about Ganga and Indus and Cherma/Kerala
  • Chandragupta Maurya was succeeded by his son Bindusara
  • he is known as Amitra Khata and he expanded the Maurya Empire to the Southern regions of the Indian Subcontinent
  • Bindusara was followed by his son Asoka


  • Asoka the Great (reigned 271- 232 BC)
  • In the history of the world there have been thousands of kings and emperors who called themselves "their highnesses," "their majesties," and "their exalted majesties" and so on. They shone for a brief moment, and as quickly disappeared. But Ashoka shines and shines brightly like a bright star, even unto this day. - H. G. Wells
  • Samrat Asoka proved to be one of the most magnificient and attractive, rulers in the whole of world history who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE(36 years).

  • One of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka expanded Chandragupta's empire, and reigned over a realm that stretched from present-day Afghanistan in the west to Bangladesh in the east.
  • capital was Pataliputra, with provincial capitals at Taxila and Ujjain.
  • Ashoka's name "Aśoka" means "painless, without sorrow".
  • It covered the entire Indian subcontinent except for parts of present-day Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.
  • After a bloody war against Kalinga(BC 261) (modern Odisha), in eastern India,resulted in  around 200,000 deaths Asoka renounced war fare and converted to Buddhism about 263 BC and actively promoted the spread of Buddhism by sending missions abroad, to Sri Lanka, South East Asia and Greek - speaking kingdoms to the west.
  • He is remembered for the Ashoka pillars and edicts and for establishing monuments marking several significant sites in the life of Gautama Buddha

  • In his edicts, he is referred to as Devānāmpiya ie. "the Beloved of the Gods".
  • biographical information about him relies on legends written centuries later, such as the 2nd-century AD Ashokavadana ("Narrative of Ashoka", a part of the Divyavadana)
  • The emblem of the modern Republic of India is an adaptation of the Lion Capital of Ashok
  • The last emperor of Maurya Empire was Brihadratha.

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