about two great kings of India
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Mauryan Emperor. The grandson of Chandragupta, Ashoka was one of India's greatest emperors, ruling the Maurya dynasty with an empire that spread almost across the entire subcontinent. ... The Emperor waged a bitter war against Kalinga (modern-day Odisha), a feudal republic on the east coast, beginning around 261 BCE.
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. Ajatasatru (512-461 BCE)
Haryanka Emperor
Ajatasatru was the son of Maharaja Bimbisara, one of the earliest rulers of the ancient kingdom of Magadha in north-east India. Bimbisara became head of the Haryanka dynasty in 543 BCE, whereupon he set about expanding his territory through marriage and conquest. However, in his own desire for power, and due to a family misunderstanding, the Prince had his father imprisoned before taking the throne for himself (Bimbisara was either murdered or committed suicide, depending on which texts you read).
Ajatasatru would go on to expand the Magadha empire, defeating no fewer than 36 neighbouring states in the process, and spent 15 years battling the Licchavi republic in the Vajji region of Nepal. During these battles, he employed two new weapons: a catapult and a covered
chariot with a swinging mace, which has been likened to a modern-day tank. Eventually, he would preside over a huge kingdom covering the northern tip of India, from Bengal in the east to the Punjab in the west, and north into Nepal.
2. Chandragupta Maurya (340-298 BCE)
Mauryan Emperor
Chandragupta Maurya is influential for his founding of the Mauryan Empire, and consequent unification of India into a single state. The major force in the region at the time
was the Nanda empire, ruled by Dhana Nanda and located in the kingdom of Magadha in north-east India. Aiming to extend its borders, the empire had built an army comprising some 200,000 infantry and 80,000 cavalry, backed up by thousands of chariots and elephants. Under the tutelage of his advisor, Chanakya, Chandragupta assembled a band of men to rebel against the incumbent ruler.
Using a mixture of bribery and deception, he incited civil unrest and overthrew Dhana Nanda to become the new King of Magadha. He then defeated the Macedonian prefects left in place by Alexander the Great, and took the Persian territories of Greek General Seleucus, before heading south to capture the Deccan Plateau, uniting the country and creating the largest empire of its day.