Jump up^ Chandragupta Maurya and his times By Radha Kumud Mookerji, 4th ed.
In the American comic strip Pearls Before Swine a girl named "Carla" mentions the story of him becoming an ascetic, although she says monk, and starving to death.
The Indian Postal Service issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring Chandragupta Maurya in 2001.
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In 2011, Chandragupt Maurya ,a television series was aired on Imagine TV.
The television series Chanakya is an account of the life and times of Chanakya, based on the play "Mudra Rakshasa" (The Signet Ring of "Rakshasa").
Akkineni Nageswara Rao played the role of Chanakya, while N.
The story of Chanakya and Chandragupta was made into a film in Telugu Language in 1977 titled Chanakya Chandragupta.
Chanakya's role in formation of the Maurya Empire is the essence of a historical/spiritual novel The Courtesan and the Sadhu by Dr.
Bindusara's son Ashoka the Great became one of the most influential kings in India's history due to his important role in the history of Buddhism. Bindusara maintained friendly relations with Greek governors in Asia and Egypt. "Ĭhandragupta Maurya renounced his throne to his son, Bindusara, who became the new Maurya Emperor. As soon as the forces, therefore, of all the confederates were united, a battle was fought, in which Antigonus was slain, and his son Demetrius put to flight. Sandrocottus, having thus acquired a throne, was in possession of India, when Seleucus was laying the foundations of his future greatness who, after making a league with him, and settling his affairs in the east, proceeded to join in the war against Antigonus. "Some time after, as he was going to war with the generals of Alexander, a wild elephant of great bulk presented itself before him of its own accord, and, as if tamed down to gentleness, took him on its back, and became his guide in the war, and conspicuous in fields of battle. The Roman historian Justin described how Sandrocottus ( Greek version of Chandragupta's name) conquered the northwest: “ The satrapies he fought may have included Eudemus, ruler in western Punjab until his departure in 317 BCE and Peithon, son of Agenor, ruler of the Greek colonies along the Indus until his departure for Babylon in 316 BCE. For Androcottus, who reigned there not long afterwards, made a present to Seleucus of five hundred elephants, and with an army of six hundred thousand men overran and subdued all India."Īfter Alexander's death in 323 BCE, Chandragupta turned his attention to Northwestern South Asia (modern Pakistan), where he defeated the satrapies (described as "prefects" in classical Western sources) left in place by Alexander (according to Justin), and may have assassinated two of his governors, Nicanor and Philip. And there was no boasting in these reports. For they were told that the kings of the Ganderites and Praesii were awaiting them with eighty thousand horsemen, two hundred thousand footmen, eight thousand chariots, and six thousand fighting elephants. For having had all they could do to repulse an enemy who mustered only twenty thousand infantry and two thousand horse, they violently opposed Alexander when he insisted on crossing the river Ganges also, the width of which, as they learned, was thirty-two furlongs, its depth a hundred fathoms, while its banks on the further side were covered with multitudes of men-at‑arms and horsemen and elephants. "As for the Macedonians, however, their struggle with Porus blunted their courage and stayed their further advance into India. Īccording to Plutarch, at the time of the Battle of the Hydaspes River, the Nanda Empire's army numbered 200,000 infantry, 80,000 cavalry, 8,000 chariots, and 7,000 war elephants, which discouraged Alexander's men and prevented their further progress into India: “ The Mahavamshatikaconnects him with the Shakya clan of the Buddha, a clan which also belongs to the race of Ādityas. These traditions indicate that Chandragupt came from a Kshatriya lineage. possibly Pipli on the outskirts of Kurukshetra. The Mahaparinibbana Sutta states that the Moriyas (Mauryas) belonged to the Kshatriya community of Pippalivana i.e. The Buddhist text the Mahavamsa calls Chandragupta a member of a division of the( Kshatriya) clan called the Moriya i.e. On the other hand, the same play describes the Nandas as of Prathita-kula, i.e. This reinforces Justin's contention that Chandragupta had a humble origin. Mudrarakshasa uses terms like kula-hina and Vrishala for Chandragupta's lineage. Chandragupta was born into a family left destitute by the death of his father, chief of the migrant Mauryas, in a border fray. More than half a millennium later, the Sanskrit drama Mudrarakshasa calls him a "Nandanvaya" i.e. Many Indian literary traditions connect him with the Nanda Dynasty in modern day Bihar in eastern India.