In the 4th century B.C., Nanda kings ruled Magadha dynasty and this dynasty was the most powerful kingdom of the north. A Brahman minister called Chanakya also known as Kautilya, trained a young man i ...

The decline of the Maurya Dynasty was rather rapid after the death of Ashoka/Asoka. One obvious reason for it was the succession of weak kings. Another immediate cause was the partition of the Empire ...

Ashoka Vardhana, the third Mauryan emperor (the first great unified empire of India), has gone down in history for converting to Buddhism after witnessing the massacres resulting from the campaign he ...

Ashoka Maurya, commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent. One of India's greatest emperors, ...

CHENNAI: The inscriptions at Erragudi caves, Andhra Pradesh, are still fresh, centuries after the reign of the third emperor of Mauryan dynasty, Ashoka, said Nayanjot Lahiri, archaeologist and ...

Women held an important place in Mauryan history, but their stories are rarely highlighted in historical texts, stated author Devika Rangachari, in conversation with Eric Chopra, on Sunday. The ...

I am sure you would be intrigued by the title of this slideshow--Chandar Gupta was not Chandargupta Maurya! A lot of people don't know that they were completely different people and were great ...

Experts believe that this hall was where Emperor Ashoka held his meetings. However, in the late 1990s, the ruins of the hall began to get waterlogged due to groundwater seepage. To prevent further ...