The Mauryan Empire was divided into four provinces with the imperial capital at Pataliputra. From Ashokan edicts, the name of the four provincial capitals are Tosali (in the east), Ujjain in the ...

The Mauryan Empire: Administration The Mauryan Empire was divided into four provinces with the imperial capital at Pataliputra. From Ashokan Edicts, the name of the four provincial capitals were ...

Chandragupta Maurya was the first king to establish an empire in India. He died a monk. Chandragupta Maurya is considered to ...

However, behind the splendor of the Mauryan Empire—the first empire to unify nearly all of the Indian subcontinent—was a robust, disciplined, and deeply strategic military structure.

Making of an empire. As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

The capital of Medes, passing on to Cyrus the Great, Ectabana ... as “probably the earliest huge stone-pillared structure to be built by Indian architects” was a relic of the Mauryan empire.

The ancient Mauryan empire had spread beyond India, all the way till China and Nepal, according to noted Italian archaeologist Giovenni Veradi. He has drawn this conclusion on the basis of his ...

Q. Tell us about the inspiration behind Urnabhih; why write a story on the Mauryan times? A. My passion for the treatise of Arthashastra is the reason why I chose the Mauryan period as my focus ...