Chitra Katha

Chandragupta MauryaFounder of Bharat’s First Empire

Around 305 BCE he turned back Seleucus Nicator on the north-west frontier and took Arachosia, Gedrosia and Paropamisadae under the treaty that followed.

Reigned c. 321–297 BCE

The full life

1Overthrew the Nanda dynasty c. 321 BCE.Chandragupta Maurya · The Nanda king

2Received the eastern satrapies from Seleucus and gave him 500 elephants.Chandragupta Maurya · The Greeks

3Megasthenes, the Seleucid envoy, lived at his court in Pataliputra.Chandragupta Maurya · Megasthenes

4His governor Pushyagupta built the Sudarshana lake at Girnar (Junagadh inscription).Chandragupta Maurya

5Jain tradition places his death at Chandragiri, Shravanabelagola.Chandragupta Maurya

Sources for these facts

Arrian, Indica (after Megasthenes)
Strabo, Geography XV
Junagadh rock inscription of Rudradaman (150 CE)
Shravanabelagola inscriptions (Epigraphia Carnatica II)

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