chandragupta in A Sentence

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    And I've found my Chandragupta.

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    When Chanakya wanted to overthrow Dhana Nanda… he used Chandragupta.

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    There is an ancient fort and several Chandragupta era idols.

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    Sit on a king's throne and imagine you are Chandragupta Maurya.

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    Others like Pran Krishna Pal, Govardhan Ash and Bansi Chandragupta joined later.

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    During the reign of two great rulers of the Maurya dynasty, Chandragupta Maurya and Asoka,

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    Q12 Name Chandragupta's son, who reigned between 298-272 BC and extended the empire throughout the whole of India.

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    Chandragupta's grandson, Ashoka, greatly extended the empire by conquering most of modern-day India save for the southern tip.

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    With the help of Seleucus, Chandragupta started acquiring many regions and expanded his empire as far as South Asia.

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    At a higher age, Chandragupta got interested in religion and left his throne to his son Bindusar in 301 BC.

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    After becoming the master of all Northern India, Chandragupta began a campaign to conquer the southern half of the Indian subcontinent.

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    Many Greek accounts suggest that the army of Chandragupta Maurya consisted of more than 500,000 foot soldiers, 9000 war elephants and 30000 cavalry.

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    Besides Indian Idol, Salman Ali lent his voice for the theme song of the Indian Television Series Chandragupta Maurya, airing on Sony TV.

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    Last but not the least, it is also claimed that Chandragupta Mauryawas abandoned by his parents and that he came from a humble background.

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    Prior to it, during the rule of Ashoka(268- 232 BCE), the region was under Yavana Tushaspa, and governed by Pushyagupta during Chandragupta Maurya's reign(322BC- 298BC).

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    Thanks to this massive expansion, Chandragupta Maurya's empire was said to be the most extensive in the whole of Asia, second only to the empire of Alexander in this region.

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    Ironically enough, Chandragupta was a fugitive in the camp of Alexander the Great during the time of his exile, and it is possible that he personally met Alexander the Great.

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    According to Megasthenes, who visited the court of Chandragupta Maurya(322-297), the Andhras had 30 fortified towns along Godavari river and an army of 1,00,000 infantry, 2,000 cavalry and 1,000 elephants.

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    Thanks to this massive expansion, Chandragupta Maurya's empire was said to be the most extensive in the whole of Asia, second only to the empire of Alexander in this region.

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    Following these successful campaigns, Chandragupta was seen as a brave leader who defeated part of the Greek invaders and ended the corrupt Nanda government and thus gained wide public support.

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    The pillar bears an inscription which states that it was erected as a flagstaff in honour of the Hindu god, Vishnu, and in the memory of the Gupta King Chandragupta II(375-413).

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    The most illustrious king of this dynasty was Asoka(273-236 B.C.), Chandragupta's grandson who became a Buddhist and combined in himself the zeal of a monk with the wisdom of a king.

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    During the reign of two great rulers of the Maurya dynasty, Chandragupta Maurya and Asoka, the empire expanded till it comprised the whole of India except a small area in the extreme south.

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    Seleucus was busy enough with what was happening on the western borders, so Chandragupta saw a tempting opportunity and launched an attack on Seleucus and captured a big portion of what today is Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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    A separate manual of politics and economics, the Artha- shastra, said to have been written by Chanakya or Kautilya, the minister of Chandragupta Maurya was an achievement in the field of the theory of government and political institutions.

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    Emperor Ashoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, not only ordered engraving of his edicts on the rock at Junagadh but asked Governor Tusherpha to cut canals from the lake where an earlier Mauryan governor had built a dam.

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    Chandragupta Maurya inspires by his determination in rising from a commoner to being a king that established India's first empire, vision in building a citizen and market friendly state on the principles of arthashastra, and his detachment in being able to shed the trappings of kingship to become a monk.

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    It is more or less a circular monolithic temple cut out of an isolated mass of sandstone rock and carved into a hemisphere mounted on a base and capped by a flat stone in the form of a tawa( griddle) which, according to the inscription on it, was fashioned by a minister of Chandragupta.

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    Finally in the beginning of the fourth century AD another Chandragupta( AD 320 to AD 335) arose from the land which had given birth to the founder of the Mauryan empire and made Pataliputra the capital of another fairly big empire which under his son Samudragupta and his grandson Chandragupta II held the whole of India, except a small part of the south, under its sway.

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