MAURYAN EMPIRE (322 B.C - 185 B.C)
- Mudrarakshasa Maurya were connected with Nandas, call them Vrishal/ Kulhina (of low clan).
- Buddhist traditions Chandrahupta as Kshatriya (Sakya clan) the region was full of peacocks (nors), so become famous as 'Moriyas'.
- Puranas Moriya clan (low caste).
- Junagarh Jrock inscription of Rudradaman (AD 150) suggest that Mauryans might have been of Vaishya origin. Chandragupta Maurya (322 BC-298 BC)
- Also called as Sandrocottus/Androcottus by Greek scholars.
- He entered into alliance with Parvartaka and with Ine help of Chanakya with dethroned last Nanda ruler Dhanananda and founded the Maurya Dynasty with capital at Pataliputra.
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- Chandragupta defeated Seleucus Nicator, the general of Alexender in North-West India in 305 BC. Selucus surrendered a vast territory in return for 500 elephant Hindukush became the boundary between the two states. There was matrimonial alliance between them.
- Selucus also sent a Greek Ambassador, Megasthenese, to the court of Chandragupta Maurya.
- Chandragupta embraced Janism and went to Chandigiri Hill, at Sravanbelagola with Bhadrabahu, where he died of show starvation (Salekhna).
- Chandragupta was the first Indian rular to unite the whole North India. Bfeth trade and agriculture florished during his region. Weights and measures were standarised, money came into use and sanitation and famine relief measures were undertaken by the states.
