Kautilya’s ‘Arthasastra’: It is the most important literary source for the Mauryas.Brihadratha the last Mauryan ruler was assassinated in 185 BC by his commander in – chief, Pushyanitra Sunga, who established his own Sunga dynasty.Ĭomplete Social Studies Notes For All Teaching Exams!.Kunala son of Ashoka ruled the Western part and Dasaratha ruled the Eastern part. After the death of Ashoka, the division of the Mauryan Empire into two parts-Western and Eastern.the whole of the sub-continent was under imperial control. Under Ashoka, the Mauryan Empire reached its climax.This war of succession accounts for interregnum for 273-269 BC and only after securing his position on the throne, Ashoka had himself formally crowned in 269 BC.Radhagupta helped him in fratricidal struggle. According to Buddhist tradition, Ashoka usurped the throne after killing his 99 brothers and spared Tissa, the youngest one.It appears from the available evidence (Buddhist literature mainly) that there was a struggle for the throne among the princes on the death of Bindusara.According to Buddhist texts when Ashoka, the son of Bindusara, was born, his mother, happy to have a child, said, ‘Now I am Ashoka’, i.e., without sorrow.Bindusara, known to the Greeks as Amitrochates (derived from the Sanskrit word Amitraghata).Chandragupta Maurya was succeeded by his son Bindusara.
Practice Social Studies Quiz Here for CTET Exam Taxation, sanitation and famine relief became the concerns of the state.Trade flourished, agriculture was regulated, weights and measures were standardised and money came into use.Under Chandragupta Maurya, for the first time, the whole of Northern India was united.Selecus Nikator sent Megasthenese to the court of Chandragupta Maurya.After treaty between Chandragupta and Selecus, the Hindukush became boundry between their states.Chandragupta Maurya defeated Selecus Nikator in 305 BC, who surrendered a vast territory including herat, Kandhar, Baluchistan and Kabul, in return for 500 elephants.Chandragupta dethroned the last Nanda ruler Dhananand and occupied Patliputra in 322 BC with the help of Kautilya or Chankya.we can say that the Mauryas belonged to the Moriya.
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