Chandragupta , 1st King of Maurya Empire

• Preferred Name: Chandragupta , 1st King of Maurya Empire
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: LVSV-9ZY
  
• Death: 297 BC in India at LATI: N0 LONG: E7
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Samraja of Magadha
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: founder of the Mauryan Dynasty
  
• Birth: 346 BC in India at LATI: N0 LONG: E7
  
• MilitaryService: gains territory by defeating the Seleucid Empire.BET 305 BC AND 303 BC
  
• MilitaryService: conquers the Northwest of the Indian subcontinent.BET 317 BC AND 316 BC
  
• Chandragupta+and+Seleucus+concluded+a+peace+treaty+and+a+marriage+alliance: 303 BC with note: Description: Chandragupta married the daughter of Seleucus and received vast territories. In return gave Seleucus 500 war elephants
  
• MilitaryService: conquers the Nanda Empire, founding Maurya dynasty.322 BC
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 1st Emperor of MauryaBET 321 BC AND 297 BC
  
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  === Life Sketch ===
  Chandragupta Maurya (Pāli: Candagutta Moriya; Sanskrit: Candragupta Maurya; Ancient Greek: Sandrákoptos, Sandrákottos, Ανδροκόττος Androkóttos; 350 - 295 BCE) was a ruler of Iron Age South Asia who expanded a geographically-extensive kingdom based in Magadha and founded the Maurya dynasty. He reigned from 324 BCE to 293 BCE. The Maurya kingdom expanded to become an empire that reached its peak under the reign of his grandson, Asoka, from 268 BCE to 231 BCE. The nature of the political formation that existed in Chandragupta's time is not certain. The Mauryan empire was a loose-knit empire.
  
  The early life of Chandragupta Maurya is unclear and varies by source. According to the Sinhalese Buddhist tradition, Chandragupta's mother was pregnant when his father - who was the chief of the Moriya clan - was killed in a battle. His mother escaped to Patliputra with the help of her brothers. For Chandragupta's safety, his maternal uncles helped a cowherd adopt him. When Chandragupta grew up, the cowherd sold him to a hunter who employed him to tend cattle.
  
  According to the Digambara legend by Hemachandra, Chanakya was a Jain layperson and a Brahmin. When Chanakya was born, Jain monks prophesied that Chanakya will one day grow up to help make someone an emperor and will be the power behind the throne. Chanakya believed in the prophecy and fulfilled it by agreeing to help the daughter of a peacock-breeding community chief deliver a baby boy. In exchange, he asked the mother to give up the boy and let him adopt him at a later date. The Jain Brahmin then went about making money through magic, and returned later to claim young Chandragupta, whom he taught and trained. Together, they recruited soldiers and attacked the Nanda kingdom. Eventually, they won and proclaimed Patliputra as their capital.
  
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  Chandragupta Maurya was an important figure in the history of India, laying the foundations of the first state to unite most of India. Chandragupta, under the tutelage of Chanakya, created a new empire based on the principles of statecraft, built a large army, and continued expanding the boundaries of his empire until ultimately renouncing it for an ascetic life in his final years.
  
  Prior to his consolidation of power, Alexander the Great had invaded the North-West Indian subcontinent before abandoning his campaign in 324 BCE due to a mutiny caused by the prospect of facing another large empire, presumably the Nanda Empire. Chandragupta defeated and conquered both the Nanda Empire, and the Greek satraps that were appointed or formed from Alexander's Empire in South Asia. He set out to conquer the Nanda Empire centered in Pataliputra, Magadha. Afterwards, Chandragupta expanded and secured his western border, where he was confronted by Seleucus I Nicator in the Seleucid–Mauryan war. After two years of war, Chandragupta was considered to have gained the upper hand in the conflict and annexed satrapies up to the Hindu Kush. Instead of prolonging the war, both parties settled on a marriage treaty between Chandragupta and Seleucus I Nicator's daughter (called Berenice or Suvarnaksi in the Mahavamsa).
  
  Chandragupta's empire extended throughout most of the Indian subcontinent, spanning from modern day Bengal to Afghanistan across North India as well as making inroads into Central and South India. According to the Jain accounts dated to 800 years after his death, Chandragupta abdicated his throne and became a Jain monk, traveled away from his empire to South India and committed sallekhana or fasting to death. Contemporary Greek evidence however avers that Chandragupta did not give up performing the rites of sacrificing animals associated with Vedic Brahminism, an ancient form of Hinduism; he delighted in hunting and otherwise leading a life remote from the Jain practice of Ahimsa or nonviolence towards living beings. Chandragupta's reign, and the Maurya Empire, set an era of economic prosperity, reforms, infrastructure expansions, and tolerance. Many religions thrived within his realms and his descendants' empire. Buddhism, Jainism and Ajivika gained prominence alongside Vedic and Brahmanistic traditions, and minority religions such as Zoroastrianism and the Greek pantheon were respected. A memorial for Chandragupta Maurya exists on the Chandragiri hill along with a seventh-century hagiographic inscription.

• m. ABT 322 BC in Shravanabelagola, Karnātaka, India

1. Bindusara Amitraghāta Mauryja, 2nd Emperor of Maurya, b. 322 BC in Shravanabelagola, Karnataka, India     d. 273 BC in Shravanabelagola, Karnataka, India

• m. ABT 303 BC in India