2. The Maurya Empire was a geographically
extensive Iron Age historical power in ancient India,
ruled by the Mauryan dynastyfrom 322 - 185 BCE.
Originating from the kingdom of Magadha in
the Indo-Gangetic plains (modern Bihar, eastern Uttar
Pradesh) in the eastern side of the Indian
subcontinent, the empire had its capital city
at Pataliputra (modern Patna)
3.
4. Chandragupta Maurya (340 BC – 298 BC) was the
founder of the Mauryan Empire and the
first emperor to unify India into one state. He ruled
from 322 BC until his voluntary retirement and
abdication in favour of his son Bindusara in 298 BC
5. Bindusara Maurya (c. 320 BC – 272 BC) was emperor
of the Maurya Empire from 298 BC – 272 BC. During
his reign, the empire expanded southwards. He had
two well-known sons, Susima and Ashoka, who were
the viceroys of Takshashila and Ujjain.
TheGreeks called him Amitrochates or Allitrochades
6. Ashoka Maurya (Sanskrit: अशोक मौर्य), (304–232
BCE), commonly known as Ashoka and also
as Ashoka the Great, was an Indianemperor of
the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian
subcontinent from ca. 269 BCE to 232 BCE.[1] One of
India's greatest emperors
7. Dasaratha (252–224 BCE)
was Mauryan Emperor from 232 to 224 BCE. He was a
grandson of Ashoka and had succeeded his father as
the imperial ruler of India. Dasaratha presided over a
declining imperium and several territories of the
empire broke away from central rule during his reign.
