rules and regulations of Chandragupta Maurya
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India unified as a single entity for the first time under the rule of the great emperor Chandragupta Maurya (340 BC – 298 BC). Before his rule most of the south Asia was divided into small states whereas Gangetic Plains were ruled by the Nanda Dynasty. Chandragupta Maurya by conquering most of the Indian subcontinent gave political unity to India and laid the foundation of Mauryan Empire.
Though very less information about Chandragupta Maurya’s early days is available but it is assumed that he was born around 340 BCE to a mother named Mura. It is also believed that word Maurya came from his mother’s name. He ruled for 24 years as described in Puranas (historical Sanskrit work). He was then succeeded by his son Bindusara who ruled for 25 years. Bindusara was then succeeded by Asoka in 274 B.C.
Information about his ancestry is also ambiguous. As per most of the Indian literary traditions, Chandragupta Maurya was connected with the Nanda Dynasty. After about a half millennium, he was called as “Nandanvaya”, i.e. the descendant of Nanda (Act IV) in the Sanskrit drama Mudrarakshasa. As per Vishnu Purana’s medieval commentator, Chandragupta Maurya was born to Nanda prince and his maid Mura. Whereas Buddhist text, the Mahavamsa, says that Chandragupta Maurya is from Moriya, a branch of the Khattiya (Kshatriya) clan. Facts are difficult to separate from fiction.
Different lessons of politics and war were taught to Chandragupta by Chanakya. Chanakya or Kautilya was a great scholar, teacher of economics and political science at ancient Takshashila University. Chanakya then became the mentor of Chandragupta Maurya. By defeating Dhana Nanda of Nanda, Chandragupta Maurya established Maurya Empire.
His was the largest empire in the Indian history. In east the Maurya Empire