Chandragupta 旃陀罗笈多

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Chandragupta, founder of the Mauryan dynasty and the first emperor to unify most of India under one administration.

He was an ambitious emperor.Upon Kautilya's advice, he collected mercenary soldiers, secured public support, and ended the autocracy of the Nanda dynasty in a bloody battle against forces led by their commander in chief,Bhaddasala.Ranging from the Himalayas and the Kābul River valley in the north and west to the Vindhya Range in the south,Chandragupta's Indian empire was one of history's most extensive.

Moreover,he loved the subjects as if they were his own children.When the famine came,he made efforts to counter it, but, dejected by the tragic conditions prevailing, he left to spend his last days in the service of Bhadrabahu at Shravanabelagola, a famous religious site in southwestern India, where Chandragupta fasted to death.

Chandragupta was brave and charismatic,a natural leader.


Reference:https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chandragupta

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Chandragupta was born into a family left destitute by the death of his father, in a border fray.His maternal uncles left him with a cowherd who brought him up as his own son. Later he was sold to a hunter to tend cattle. Purchased by a Brahman politician, Kautilya he was taken to Taxila , where he received an education in military tactics and the aesthetic arts. Tradition states that while he slept, following a meeting with Alexander the Great, a lion began licking his body, gently waking him and prompting in him hopes of royal dignity.

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Chandragupta is really a great leader.And I do love the story of him.

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Chandragupta's Indian empire was one of history's most extensive. Its continuation for at least two generations is
attributable in part to his establishment of an excellent administration patterned on that of the Persian Achaemenid
dynasty (559-330 BcE) and after Kautilya's text on politics, Artha-shastra (“The Science of Material Gain”).

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Chandragupta is the first emperor to unify most of India under one administration. He is credited with saving the country from maladministration and freeing it from foreign domination. He later fasted to death in sorrow for his famine-stricken people.

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   旃陀罗笈多,孔雀王朝的创始人，也是第一个统一了印度大部分地区的皇帝。
   他是一个野心勃勃的皇帝。在考提利亚的建议下，他召集了雇佣兵，同时获得了公众的支持，最终在一场与南达王朝总司令巴德萨拉所领导的军队的血腥战斗中结束了南达王朝的独裁统治。 旃陀罗笈多的印度帝国北起喜马拉雅山脉、西抵卡瓦布尔河谷、南至文迪亚山脉，是历史上最广阔的印度帝国之一。
   此外，他爱民如子。当饥荒来袭的时候，他努力与其抗争，但是他因当时的悲惨状况而感到沮丧，于是离开了那里，并在印度西南部著名的宗教圣地Shravanabelagola（卡纳塔克邦）为巴德拉巴胡服务以度过余生，最终绝食而死。

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He is credited with saving the country from maladministration and freeing it from foreign domination.Chandragupta received an education in military tactics and the aesthetic arts in Taxila (now in Pakistan). He was mentored by Kautilya (also called Chanakya), a Brahman statesman and philosopher.Also,he overthrew the Nanda dynasty and then ascended to the throne of the Magadha kingdom, in present-day Bihar state, India, about 325 BCE. Alexander the Great died in 323, leaving Chandragupta to win the Punjab region about 322. The following year, as emperor of Magadha and ruler of the Punjab, he began the Mauryan dynasty.

Reference:https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chandragupta

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The Mauryan Dynasty, which began about 321 BCE and lasted in 185 BCE, was the first pan-Indian empire, encompassing the majority of India. It encompassed sections of central and northern India as well as modern-day Iran. The conquest of the Indo-Gangetic Plain centred the Mauryan Empire, and Pataliputra served as its capital city (modern Patna).
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