Chandragupta Maury (c.321 - c. 297BCE)

Born : c. 321

Died : c. 297 BCE

Coronation : c. 324 or 321

Parents : Sarvarthasiddi  Maurya, Mura Maurya

Spouse : Durdhara (m.? - 318 BC) 

         Chandragupta founder of the Maurya dynasty and the first emperor to unity most of India under one administration. Aided by his mentor and later minister Chaanakya Or Kautilya, he set up a vast centralized empire, details of whose functioning, society, military and economy are well preserved in Kautilya's Arthashastra. Together chandragupta and chandragupta one of the largest empires the Indian subcontinent. 
           Chandragupta was born in to a family left destitute by the death of his father, chief of the migrant Maurya, in a a border fray. Later he was sold to a hunter to tend cattle. Brahman politician, Kautilya (also called Chaanakya) he was taken to Taxila, where he received an education in military tactics and the aesthetic arts. 
          Chandragupta slept following a meeting with Alexandar the Great, a lion began licking his body, gently waking him and prompting in him hopes of royal dignity. He collected mercenary soldiers, secured public support and ended the autocracy of the Nanda dynasty in a bloody battle against forces led by their commander in chief Bhaddasala. 
    The throne of the Magadha kingdom, in present day Bihar state. When Alexander died in 323, his last two representatives in  lndia returned home, leaving Chandragupta to win the Punjab region about 322.
        Irrespective of what Chandragupta's early move in his career were, what can be started with certainty is his relationship with the statesman teacher kautilya. Vishnugupta Chanakya or kautilya was his ally mentor and guide and the one who sheped not only his career but the course of the Mauryan empire under Chandragupta. 
                     Chandragupta's Indian empire was one of history's most extensive. Its    continuation for at least two generations is attributable in part to his establishment of an excellent administration patterned on that of the persian Achaemenid dynasty and after kautilya's tert on politicals, Arthashastra. 
       Traditionally, chandragupta was influenced to accept Jainism by the sage Bhadravahu l, who predicted the onset of a 12 years famine. He left to spend his last days in the service of  Bhadravahu at shravanabelagila, a famous religious site in South eastern India, where chandragupta fasted to death. 
        

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