Discussing about a detail description on Maurya Empire||Indian history||krishnashree Das|

Discussing about a detail description on Maurya Empire||Indian history||krishnashree Das|

Description : The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in India based in Magadha, founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 322 BCE.

( Capital : Patliputra at present Patna, Bihar) There are six Maurya king ruled over in India. They are ..

Maurya Empire

1. Chandragupta Maurya

2. Bindusara

3. Samrat Ashoka

4. Kunala

5. Samprati

6. Shalishuka

7. Devavarman

8. Shatadhanvan

9. Brihadratha

Pillars of Ashoka

Pillars of Ashoka

The masterfully sculpted Ashoka pillars tower over the municipal garden in Panjim, Goa, India. These are one of the last remaining relics from the Mauryan Empire.

The Mauryan Empire, which formed around 321 B.C.E. and ended in 185 B.C.E., was the first pan-Indian empire, an empire that covered most of the Indian region. It spanned across central and northern India as well as over parts of modern-day Iran.

Chandragupta Maurya (reign: 321–297 BCE) was the founder of the Maurya Empire in ancient India. Chandragupta built one of the largest empires on the Indian subcontinent. Chandragupta Maurya was a pivotal figure in the history of India, laying the foundations of the first government to unite most of South Asia. Chandragupta, under the tutelage of Chanakya, created a new empire based on the principles of statecraft, built a large army, and continued expanding the boundaries of his empire until ultimately renouncing it for an ascetic life in his final years.

Bindusara (r. c. 297 – c. 273 BCE), also Amitraghāta or Amitrakhāda (Sanskrit for "slayer of enemies" or “devourer of enemies”)or Amitrochates was the second Mauryan emperor of India. He was the son of the dynasty's founder Chandragupta and the father of its most famous ruler Ashoka. Bindusara's life is not documented as well as the lives of these two emperors: much of the information about him comes from legendary accounts written several hundred years after his death.

Ashoka, also spelled Aśoka, (died 238? BCE, India), last major emperor of the Mauryandynasty of India. His vigorous patronage of Buddhism during his reign (c. 265–238 BCE; also given as c. 273–232 BCE) furthered the expansion of that religion throughout India. Following his successful but bloody conquest of the Kalinga country on the east coast, Ashoka renounced armed conquest and adopted a policy that he called “conquest by dharma”.

The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in ancient India, ruled by the Maurya dynasty from 322-185 BCE. Originating from the kingdom of Magadha in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (modern Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh) in the eastern side of the Indian subcontinent, the empire had its capital city at Pataliputra (modern Patna). The empire was the largest to have ever existed in the Indian subcontinent, spanning over 5 million square kilometres at its zenith under Ashoka.