why is mauryan empire is said to be the first empire of india
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No, it isn't said to be the first Empire….
The first empire in India was Nanda Empire.. Their predecessors were Shishunagas and Mahajanapadas…
The first emperor of Nanda was Mahapadma Nanda, who belonged to a shudra origin.. Till then it was only kshatriyas who ruled over kingdoms and thus Maha padma Nanda destroyed the sorrounding kshatriya rulers and annexed them to his empire.. He was called destroyer of Kshatriyas..
The first nonkshatriya took his place as a ruler and thus many of the people thought it was the start of Kali Yuga.. Maha Padma belonged to Ayurvedic Doctors caste which was later transformed to Barber caste.. He was an able ruler and maintained a strict and powerful army…He had 9 legitimate sons who were called Nava Nandas.. They all ruled after him but only Dhana Nanda was able to hold his grip..
It was during Dhana Nanda time the Macedonian army came to india.. Nanda army was 4 times or more than the Macedonian army.. The macedonians retreated because they were already homesick as well as the might of the Nanda Army and also the Tropical Lands of India seemed tough for them…
Dhana Nanda continued his fathers tradition of maintaining army and rule but he was very, very greedy.. He accumulated a lot of wealth which also refers to his name Dhana.. He got a lot of bad name among the people for his extreme greed and troubling people in the name of taxes.. He also had a lot of concubines and queens..
A young boy who was born to one of the princes of Nanda and a tribal cheif daughter named Mura was seen by Kautilya who himself made an oath to remove the name Nanda from this face of earth.. The boy is soo angry over the ruling dynasty because he was not given his place and right in the palace as well as humiliated severely by the ruler.. The boy was none other than Chandra gupta.. He held a grudge on dhana nanda for torturing people in the name of taxes as well as humiliating him and trying to kill his family.. Kautilya found extreme talent in this boy and he drew his plan of revenge.. He trained the boy on various things and soon destroyed the Nanda empire with the boys help..
His oath is to remove the name of the Nanda on this earths face, so he ordered the execution of all surviving Nanda princes and Royal Nobles.. The emperor gave his daughter in marriage to chandragupta and he went to forest where he lived like an ascetic.. But as per few stories it was said Dhana Nanda was murdered in forest and few accounts refer that he was murdered on the orders of none other than Chanakya aka Kautilya…The name of Nanda was vanquished by changing the surname of the boy to Maurya which refersNandas maintained good irrigation facilities as well as other constructions.. To maintain such very huge armies and the Animla slike horses, elephants the rulers need to have lot of income for paying salaries as well as fodder for animals.. Since Nanda Army was such huge it is well established that Nanda Empire was Prosperous and the main source of income was agriculture which flourished then.. The alluvial rich flood plains of Ganga has huge irrigation facilities which can also be said the empire flourished prosperously..They were good rulers but due to the passage of time a lot was not known about either Nandas or Mauryas.. The mauryan principles were directly taken from Nanda principles and few changes were made..
Prime Minister Rakshasa who was a peime minister to Nanda was also made the prime minister to Chandra Gupta Maurya… to his mothers name and thus he helped established Maurya empire…
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The mauryan principles were directly taken from Nanda principles and few changes were made. Prime Minister Rakshasa who was a peime minister to Nanda was also made the prime minister to Chandra Gupta Maurya. Mauryan Empire was the first well known empire of the Indian subcontinent, not India.
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