Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of the Maurya Empire in ancient India. He was born in a humble family.[4] He was picked up, taught and counselled by Chanakya (also known as Kautilya or Vishnugupta), a Hindu Brahmin by origin who wrote the Arthashastra. Together, Chandragupta and Chanakya built the largest empires in the Indian subcontinent.[5]
| Chandragupta Maurya | |
|---|---|
| चन्द्रगुप्त मौर्य | |
_(cropped).JPG) Modern statue of Chandragupta Maurya at Birla Temple, Delhi | |
| Emperor of Magadha | |
| c. 322 – c. 297 BCE[1][2] | |
| c. 322 BCE | |
| Predecessor | Dhana Nanda |
| Successor | Bindusara[3] |
| Born | c. 350 BCE Pataliputra, Magadha (Present day Bihar, India) |
| Died | c. 295 BCE Chandragiri, Maurya Empire (Present day Karnataka, India) |
| Spouse | Durdhara A Seleucid Princess |
| Issue | Bindusara |
| Dynasty | Maurya |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Alma mater | Taxila University |
Chandragupta Maurya defeated Seleucus I Nicator, one of the Hellenistic Successor satrapies of Alexander the Great and married a daughter of Seleucus,[6] according to both the Mahavamsa and the Bhavishya Purana.[7] He was the ruler until 297 BC. He became a Jain monk and died of starvation at Shravanabelagola of Karnataka around 295 BC.
Shashigupta, a ruler of the Punjab region during the during the 4th century BCE has been identified by some as Chandragupta Maurya.[8][9] Though other scholars take this theory lightly.[8] According to the Buddhist sources the Moriya tribesmen of eastern India were the ancestors of the Mauryas who under the leadership of Chandragupta Maurya in the 4th century BCE seized power in Magadha.[10][11]
Chandragupta Maurya Media
Possible extent of Nanda Empire, c. 325 BCE.
Malan Range and limit of ceded territory according to Tarn (1922)
1,300-year-old Shravanabelagola relief shows death of Chandragupta after taking the vow of Sallekhana. Some consider it about the legend of his arrival with Bhadrabahu.[12][13][14]
A statue depicting Chandragupta Maurya (right) with his spiritual mentor Acharya Bhadrabahu at Shravanabelagola
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Sources
References
- ↑ Chandragupta Maurya, Emperor of India Archived 10 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ Upinder Singh 2016, p. 330.
- ↑ Upinder Singh 2016, p. 331.
- ↑ Mookerji, Radha Kumud (1966). Chandragupta Maurya and his times. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 5–7. ISBN 81-208-0433-3.
- ↑ Kauṭalya (2001). Chanakya's Niti Darpan. Gita Enterprises. ISBN 978-81-87877-00-4.
- ↑ Kosmin, Paul J. (2014). The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in Seleucid Empire. Harvard University Press. pp. 33, 277. ISBN 978-0-674-72882-0.
- ↑ Paranavithana, Senarath (1971). The Greeks and the Mauryas. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Lake House Investments. p. 49.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona,1936, Vol xviii, part 2, pp 161, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Dr H. C. Seth.
- ↑ Was Chandragupta Maurya a Punjabi?, Punjab History Conference, Second Session, October 28-30, 1966, Punjabi University Patiala, p 32-35, Dr H. R. Gupta.
- ↑ Kapoor, Subodh (2002). Encyclopaedia of Ancient Indian Geography. Vol. 2. New Delhi: Cosmo Publications. ISBN 978-8177552997.
- ↑ Cunningham, Alexander (1871). The Ancient Geography of India: I. The Buddhist Period, Including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang. London: Trübner and Company. pp. 430–433.
- ↑ Dikshitar 1993, pp. 264–266.
- ↑ Wiley 2009, pp. 50–52.
- ↑ Fleet 1892, pp. 156–162.
Bibleography
Singh, Upinder (2016), A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century, Pearson Education, ISBN 978-93-325-6996-6
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