Later he was sold to a hunter to tend cattle. His maternal uncles left him with a cowherd who brought him up as his own son. He later fasted to death in sorrow for his famine-stricken people.Ĭhandragupta was born into a family left destitute by the death of his father, chief of the migrant Mauryas, in a border fray. He is credited with saving the country from maladministration and freeing it from foreign domination. 297 bce) and the first emperor to unify most of India under one administration. 297 bce, Shravanbelagola, India), founder of the Mauryan dynasty (reigned c. Its continuation for at least two generations is attributable in part to his establishment of an administration patterned on that of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty and Kautilya’s political text, Artha-shastra.Ĭhandragupta, also spelled Chandra Gupta, also called Chandragupta Maurya or Maurya, (died c.
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