MAURYAN AGE-facts you must know

• Diodorus's account was the earliest foreign account on India and it was written in Latin whereas Arrian's account was the latest and it was written in Greek
• Dasaratha also adopted the title piyadassi
• Radhagupta helped Asoka in his battle against his brothers
• Selukos Samvat-312 BC
• Asoka's wife Tissarakha killed the Bodhi tree as she was jealous and felt his husband was spending more time with the tree
• Arthashastra was the first written evidence of census in the world
• Adeva matraka meant the land which needed no irrigation
• Asoka's mother was Subhadrangi
• Justin stated that Chandragupta met Alexander whereas Strabo tells that Chandragupta developed marital relation with CelukosMashaka was copper coin
• During Asoka the name of Barabara hills was Khalantika
• In the edict of Lauriya nandangirh there was a single lion in the capital whereas Lauriya araraj had Garuda as the capital
• I'Tsing saw Asoka's statue in monk's garb
• Asoka's daughter Charumati was married to Nepala king Devpala
• Yona meant Greek
• Nanda army in the war against the Mauryas was led by Bhaddassala
• Vishnu Purana talks about the Mauryans
• According to Parishista Parvana the Parvataka sect made an alliance with Chandragupta to depose the Nandas
• Bivita was cattle tax whereas Set was irrigation tax
• Pingalvatsa an Ajivika fortune teller first told Bindusara that one day Asoka will be the king
• The Sohugara edict talks about famine during Asoka
• Kautilya talks about 15 mixed classes or Antyavasinas
• Megasthenes calls Shiva as Dionysus and Krishna as Heracles
• The name Asoka can be found in Maski, Gujjara and Nettur edicts
• The philosophers were exempted from taxation
• In the Bhabru edict Asoka declares his faith for Buddhism
• Errgundi was the only place where both major and minor edicts of Asoka can be found
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