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The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power based in Magadha and founded by Chandragupta Maurya, which dominated the Indian subcontinent between 322 and 185 BCE. Comprising the majority of South Asia, the Maurya Empire was centralized by the conquest of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, and its capital city was located at Pataliputra (modern Patna).[15][16] The empire was the largest political entity that has existed in the Indian subcontinent, extending over 5 million square kilometres (1.9 million square miles).
Maurya Empire
322 BCE – 184 BCE
Maximum extent of the Maurya Empire, as shown by the location of Ashoka's inscriptions, and visualized by historians: Vincent Arthur Smith;[1] R. C. Majumdar;[2] and historical geographer Joseph E. Schwartzberg.[3]
Maximum extent of the Maurya Empire, as shown by the location of Ashoka's inscriptions, and visualized by historians: Vincent Arthur Smith;[1] R. C. Majumdar;[2] and historical geographer Joseph E. Schwartzberg.[3]
Territories of the Maurya Empire conceptualized as core areas or linear networks separated by large autonomous regions in the works of scholars such as: historians Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund;[4] Burton Stein;[5] David Ludden;[6] and Romila Thapar;[7] anthropologists Monica L. Smith[8] and Stanley Tambiah;[7] archaeologist Robin Coningham;[7] and historical demographer Tim Dyson.[9]
Territories of the Maurya Empire conceptualized as core areas or linear networks separated by large autonomous regions in the works of scholars such as: historians Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund;[4] Burton Stein;[5] David Ludden;[6] and Romila Thapar;[7] anthropologists Monica L. Smith[8] and Stanley Tambiah;[7] archaeologist Robin Coningham;[7] and historical demographer Tim Dyson.[9]
Capital
Pataliputra
(Present-day Patna, Bihar)
Common languages
Magadhi Prakrit
Religion
Hinduism
Buddhism
Jainism
Ajivika
Greek polytheism (northwest)
Zoroastrianism (northwest)[10]
Government
Absolute monarchy, as described in Kautilya's Arthashastra
and Rajamandala[11]
Emperor
• 322–298 BCE
Chandragupta
• 298–272 BCE
Bindusara
• 268–232 BCE
Ashoka
• 232–224 BCE
Dasharatha
• 224–215 BCE
Samprati
• 215–202 BCE
Shalishuka
• 202–195 BCE
Devavarman
• 195–187 BCE
Shatadhanvan
• 187–180 BCE
Brihadratha
Historical era
Iron Age
• Conquest of the Nanda Empire
322 BCE
• Assassination of Brihadratha by Pushyamitra Shunga
184 BCE
Area
• Total
5,000,000 km2 (1,900,000 sq mi) (1st In India)
261 BCE[12]
3,400,000 km2 (1,300,000 sq mi)
250 BCE[13]
5,000,000 km2 (1,900,000 sq mi)
Population
• 261 BCE[14]
50 million
Currency
Panas
Preceded by Succeeded by
Nanda Empire
Mahajanapada
Magadha
Patliputra
Taxila
Shunga Empire
Satavahana dynasty
Mahameghavahana dynasty
Indo-Scythians
Indo-Greek Kingdom
Vidarbha kingdom (Mauryan era)
Today part of
India
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Nepal
Afghanistan
Chandragupta Maurya raised an army, with the assistance of Chanakya, author of Arthasastra,[17] and overthrew the Nanda Empire in c. 322 BCE. Chandragupta rapidly expanded his power westwards across central and western India by conquering the satraps left by Alexander the Great, and by 317 BCE the empire had fully occupied northwestern India.[18] The Mauryan Empire then defeated Seleucus I, a diadochus and founder of the Seleucid Empire, during the Seleucid–Mauryan war, thus acquiring territory west of the Indus River.[19][20]
At its greatest extent, the empire stretched along the natural boundary of the Himalayas, to the east into Bengal, to the west into what is present-day Balochistan, Pakistan and the Hindu Kush mountains of what is now eastern Afghanistan.[21] The dynasty expanded into India's southern regions[22][23] by the reign of the emperor Bindusara, but it excluded Kalinga (modern Odisha), until it was conquered by Ashoka.[24] It declined for about 50 years after Ashoka's rule, and dissolved in 185 BCE with the Assassination of Brihadratha by Pushyamitra Shunga and foundation of the Shunga dynasty in Magadha.