Northwestern frontier was already demarcated by Chandragupta Maurya Asoka’s inscriptions mention the southernmost kingdoms- Cholas, Pandyas, Satyaputras and Keralaputras...
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About 261 BCE, Asoka became a Sakya Upasaka (lay disciple) and two and a half years later, a Bikshu...
There is little information regarding the early life of Asoka. He acted as Governor of Ujjain and also suppressed...
Bindusara was called by the Greeks as “Amitragatha” meaning slayer of enemies He is said to have conquered the...
Founder of the Mauryan empire He captured Pataliputra from the last ruler of the Nanda dynasty, Dhanananda with the...
The inscriptions of Asoka were first deciphered by James Princep in 1837 They are written in Pali language and...
Significance- the political unity was achieved in India for the very first time with the foundation of the Mauryan...
Alexander’s Invasion of India (327-325 BCE) Political Condition on the eve of Alexander’s invasion: Alexander and Macedonia...
Persian Invasions Cyrus (558-530 BCE) Cyrus the Great was the greatest conqueror of the Achaemenid Empire...
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