Detailed information of Mauryan Empire

Chandragupta Maurya (322 – 297 BC)

Depose the last Nanda ruler Dhanananda with the help of Chanakya Chandragupta Maurya belonged to Magadha in 322 BC. He laid the foundation of the Maurya Empire. During the expansion of the empire, Chandragupta Maurya had a conflict with the Greek ruler Seleucus Nicator in 325 BC.

Seleucus appointed Megasthenes as his ambassador to the court of Chandragupta Maurya. Megasthenes composed Indica while living in Pataliputra. Chandragupta is also known as Sandrokots. Chandragupta Maurya, along with Saurashtra, Malwa, Avanti, merged some parts of far south India into the Magadha Empire.

According to Plutarch, Chandragupta trampled the whole of India with 600,000 soldiers. In his last time, Chandragupta reached Rivnabelagola (Karnataka) with Jain Sanyas and Bhadrabahu. He established the settlement of Chandragupta on the Chandragiri mountain, where he died after a long fast in 297 BC.

Bindusara (297 – 273 BC)

After Chandragupta in 297 BC, I became Bindusara ruler. Greek writers called Bindusara Amitrochetes. He is also called as Bhadrasar Singh. During the reign of Bindusara, there were two passes in Taxila. Ashoka leader on the first, Susim suppressed the second rebellion. Bindusara was the first Mauryan ruler to patronize the Ajivaka sect. 273 BC I died him.

Ashoka (269 – 232 BC)

Emperor Ashoka in 273 BC I had attained the rule, but due to being involved in civil war for 4 years, the actual coronation of Ashoka took place in 269 BC. happened in In the 8th year of the coronation ie:261 BC, Ashoka attacked Kalinga. After widespread violence in the Kalinga War, he adopted Dhamma Vijay instead of War Victory and took initiation into Buddhism from a Buddhist monk named Upagupta.

After adopting Buddhism, he spread Buddhism. He sent his son Mahendra and daughter Sanghamitra to Sri Lanka to propagate Buddhism. Ashoka inspired the Dhamma Yatra meaning travel to Buddhist pilgrimage sites instead of Vihara Yatra. He appointed Dhammamarhamtra (13th year) salt officers to establish Dum. Ashoka's inscriptions are inscribed in Brahmanical, Greek, and Mikra (Kharoshthi) scripts, while all inscriptions are in natural language,

Mauryan Administration

Megasthenes has described the city administration in Indica, according to this, the administration of the city used to be a group of 30 members, divided into 26 committees. Each committee had 5 members. In the Maurya period the provinces were called Chakkar, divided into two divisions. The future was called Diet. In the Maurya period, the civil court was called Dharmapatni and the criminal court was called Kantak Shodhana. During this period the spies were called Good Purush. There were two types of committees in cities - Chennai and general administration. Agronomy was the official of road construction.

Maurya Province