Nandini bint Dhanananda of Magadha

• Preferred Name: Nandini bint Dhanananda of Magadha
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: LVSV-98L
  
• Death: 321 BC in Shravanabelagola, Karnātaka, India at LATI: N2.8583 LONG: E6.4894 with note: Historical info, BC dates and geographic names
  
• Birth: ABT 342 BC in Pataliputra, Patna, India at LATI: N5.6154 LONG: E5.101
  
• died in childbirth: with note: Historical data on first wife
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Durdhara was a wife of Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the 4th-century BCE Maurya Empire of ancient India, according to the 12th century CE Jain text Parishishtaparvan by Hemachandra. She is stated by this text to be the mother of the second Mauryan emperor, Bindusara also known as Amitraghāta.
  Nothing is mentioned or known about Durdhara outside of this legend written 1,600 years after Chandragupta's era. Other sources, such as the Burmese Buddhist records do not corroborate the Jain legend. Megasthenes, the Greek ambassador in the final years of Chandragupta's court, does not mention Durdhara nor use the name Bindusara, but refers to Chandragupta's successor as Amitrochates, while the Hindu scholar Patanjali calls him Amitraghata (meaning "vanquisher of foes"). Scholars consider the Bindusara of Jain texts to be the same as Amitraghata

• 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