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Maurya
Maurya , ancient Indian dynasty, c.325-c.183 BC, founded by Chandragupta (Chandragupta Maurya). He conquered the Magadha kingdom and established his capital at Pataliputra (now Patna). His son, Bindusara (d. c.273), and his grandson, Asoka , the most notable ruler of ancient India, for the first ... Read more
Magadha
Magadha , ancient Indian kingdom, situated within the area of the modern states of Bihar and Jharkhand . Its capital was Pataliputra (now Patna ). The kingdom rose to prominence in the mid-7th cent. BC and rapidly extended its frontiers, especially under the rule of Bimbisara (c.540-c.490). Maga... Read more
Asoka
Asoka , d. c.232 BC, Indian emperor (c.273-c.232 BC) of the Maurya dynasty; grandson of Chandragupta . One of the greatest rulers of ancient India, he brought nearly all India, together with Baluchistan and Afghanistan, under one sway for the first time in history. According to legends, after his... Read more
Gujarat
Gujarat , state (2001 provisional pop. 50,596,992), c.75,686 sq mi (196,077 sq km), W India, on the Arabian Sea. It is comprised of almost all of the Kathiawar peninsula, the desolate Rann of Kachchh, and the districts of Vadovara, Baruch, Surat, and the Dangs. Gujarat was constituted in 1960 from t... Read more
India
India officially Republic of India, republic (2005 est pop. 1,080,264,000), 1,261,810 sq mi (3,268,090 sq km), S Asia. The second most populous country in the world, it is also sometimes called Bharat, its ancient name. India's land frontier (c.9,500 mi/15,290 km long) stretches from the Arabian Se... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Mauryan"

Aryan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Kshatriya), and the menial caste (Sudra). Prior to the Mauryan Empire (321 to 185 b.c.) there was no organized Aryan...Press. Thapar, Romila (1980). "India before and after the Mauryan Empire." In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology, edited...
Chandragupta Maurya
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...marriage to Chandragupta and appointed Megasthenes as ambassador to the Maurya court. Scholars owe much information about Mauryan India to a detailed account written by Megasthenes. The Magadhan state under Chandragupta was both opulent and totalitarian...
Gujarat
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...linked Gujarat with the Indus valley civilization (c.3,000-1,500 BC) and have suggested that it was a part of the Mauryan empire (c.320-185 BC). The Gujarat region was the center of Jainism under the Rajput Caulukya dynasty (11th-12th...
Asoka
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...accomplishments, is most celebrated for his elevation of Buddhism from a simple Indian sect to a world religion. After his death the Mauryan empire swiftly declined. Bibliography: See studies by V. A. Smith (1909, repr. 1964), R. Thapar (1961), R. D...
Assassination
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...and Nero on the other — killed themselves rather than let assassins do the job. And Chandragupta, founder of the Mauryan empire of India in the third century, feared assassination so much that in 301 he left his throne, joined the Jain sect...
Indians
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...northwestern India around 1700 bc. These groups eventually took over much of India. At times, powerful kingdoms such as the Mauryan (321 – 181 bc) and the Gupta (ad 319 – c. 500) empires have ruled. But, over the centuries, Persians...
Espionage
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...tricks" are nothing new. The roots of espionage in the East are likewise very deep: in the third century b.c., both the Mauryan empire of India and the China's Ch'in dynasty ensured control over their vast realms with the help of spy networks. Despite...
Maurya
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...for the first time in history brought nearly all India, together with Afghanistan, under one rule. The culture of the Mauryan empire represents the first great flowering of Indian civilization, not to be equaled until the coming of the Gupta dynasty...
Magadha
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...rule of Bimbisara (c.540-c.490). Magadha fell (c.325) to Chandragupta , who made the kingdom the nucleus of the Mauryan empire. After a period of obscurity, it recovered importance in the 4th cent. AD as the power-base of the Gupta dynasty...

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Mauryan dynasty
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism Mauryan dynasty. Early Indian dynasty centred on the state of Magadha which ruled...to include Mysore, and by this time much of the subcontinent was under Mauryan control with the exception of Kaliṅga (present-day Orissa...
Mauryan empire
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Mauryan empire ( c. 325–185 BC) The first empire in India to extend...238 BC) soon renounced militarism, his reign marked the high peak of Mauryan power, for his humane rule permitted the consolidation of his father...
Aśoka
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism ...son of Bindusāra , and third incumbent of the Mauryan throne, c. 272–231 bce. Aśoka is...south-east Asia. After Aśoka's death in 231 bce Mauryan rule rapidly declined and in the 2nd century bce the north...
Candragupta Maurya
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism Candragupta Maurya. Founder of the Mauryan dynasty and grandfather of Aśoka , Candragupta seized...and the Greek ambassador Megasthenes took up residence at the Mauryan capital. Candragupta further extended his kingdom to the south...
Megasthenes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Megasthenes. Greek ambassador at the court of Chandragupta Maurya at Pāṭaliputra , c. 302 BCE. His account of his travels throughout N. India, Indica , is an important historical resource on Mauryan India.
Maurya
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...founded by Chandragupta Maurya , who introduced a centralized government and uniform script, and developed a highway network which led to Mauryan control of most of the Indian subcontinent. The oldest extant Indian art dates from this era.
India
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...and fell under Hindu, and later Buddhist, dynasties, but mastery over the entire subcontinent was rarely achieved. The MAURYAN EMPIRE ( c. 325–185 BC), was the first all-India empire, only the southern tip remaining outside its influence...
Bhārhut
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism ...rhut. Site in Madhya Pradesh, India , of one of the earliest stūpas built on a mound which dates back to the Mauryan period. It was constructed around 100 bce, which is before the first images of the Buddha are found, and is decorated with...
Śākya
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism ...kyas were like other kṣatriya tribes of north-east India or elsewhere (as described in the sources of the Mauryan period or later, such as the Arthaśāstra), then each adult noble would have had the title rā...
Buddhism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...of India, however, Buddhism had become a pan-Asian religion. By the middle of the third century b.c.e. the great Mauryan emperor Ashoka consolidated most of the Indian subcontinent under his rule. While Ashoka may or may not have been himself...

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Mauryan to make growth investments in small companies.
News Wire article from: Asian News International; 11/11/2009; 700+ words ; ...Delhi, Nov 11 (ANI/Business Wire India): Mauryan Capital Advisors ("Mauryan"), the recently launched New Delhi based private...private equity investments in small companies. Mauryan will target investment sizes of Rs 5cr to Rs 25cr...
The social contract in Kautilya's Arthasastra and the Mauryan empire of ancient India.
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Economics and Business; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...The developmental, hegemonic Kautilya-Mauryan state was in fact a domain as well as...contract subsisting in the Kautilya-Mauryan state was not as benign as frequently...subsisting between the expansionary Kautilya-Mauryan state (K-M state) and its polyglot...
THE MAURYAN DYNASTY.(Chandragupta founds the Mauryan Empire in ancient India)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 1/1/2000; ; 571 words ; ...also united 16 other states, and established the Mauryan Empire. Visitors to the Mauryan court in the years that followed described Pataliputra...the world at the time. The population of the Mauryan Empire is estimated to have been about 50 million...
Chic hairstyles date back to Mauryan period
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 9/7/2006; 561 words ; ...such hairstyles existed even during the Mauryan period. And perhaps the extensive experiments...The female figurines belonging to pre-Mauryan period (during first century AD) showcased...detailed styling. It is only during the Mauryan period that people started flaunting variable...
The Road to the Throne.(Ashoka, emperor of the Mauryan empire: ancient India)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; Emperor Ashoka ruled the Mauryan Empire in India for 37 years. He was the third ruler of the dynasty...actual details may be, Ashoka was officially crowned king of the Mauryan empire in 269 B.C. Buddhist legends also stress Ashoka's cruelty...
Vacate Mauryan site, SC tells Bihar
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 9/4/2007; 445 words ; ...evicted if they do not vacate the premises by September 10. Spread over 22 acres of land, the buildings are located near the Mauryan site of Kumharar. The PMC notice served on the owners comes in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent directive to the state...
HIS SACRED MAJESTY'S REMORSE.(Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire in ancient India)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...entitled Arthasastra. Indeed, the advice seemed to express the aims of the emperor, whose conquests had created much of the Mauryan Empire. For Chandragupta, warfare had been an end in itself. For his grandson Ashoka, it would be the unlikely road to...
Context, content, and composition: questions of intended meaning and the Asokan edicts.
Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...DESPITE ITS RELATIVELY SHORT SPAN, THE MAURYAN EMPIRE holds great significance for the...celebrated as India's first empire, the Mauryan polity (c. 320-180 B.C.) is frequently...extent and nature of control exercised by Mauryan rulers. The central theme of this paper...
Religion and economic activity in India: an historical perspective.
Magazine article from: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology; 4/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...shall be evaluated. II The Mauryan Empire (c. 321-c. 185 BC) THE PERIOD OF THE MAURYAN EMPIRE has been called a...history.(1) Under the Mauryans, various small kingdoms...the south of India. The Mauryan empire, under Chandragupta...
After Ashoka.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...and more difficult to control the vast Mauryan Empire. Legend also tells of Ashoka...intrigue within Ashoka's court, the Mauryan Empire remained strong. When the king...conquering some distant regions of the Mauryan Empire. Meanwhile, other areas, which...