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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Post Mauryan Period

• Kushanas issued largest variety of coins
  
• Artisans and craftsmen were drawn mainly from the Shudras
• Royal writs of land grants were known as Sasanpatra whereas private writs were caled Lankikalekha or Karyalekha
• Guilds were not involved in sale or distribution of commodities
• Kushanas wre the first to issue gold coins on Roman pattern
• Sind Sauvira was famous for horses and asses
• Tamil and Chera kingdoms were the first to start trading relation with Rome
• Cotton clothes of fine quality was known as Monakhe whereas that of coarse quality was known as sagmatogene
• There was no guild for the carpenters
• Mercantile cooperation was known as Sreni
• Conventions of the guilds were knwon as Sthitipatra or Sambhitpatra
• Mathura inscription states that guilds provided loans against mortgage
• Jataka tells that there were 18 guilds
• Wima cadphises converted to saivism and called himself maheswar
• The official language of the satvahanas was Prakrit with Brahmi as the script
• Mathura inscription tells us that the guilds provided loans against mortgage
• Indo-Greeks were the first to issue gold coins
• Kushanas issued largest number of copper coins
• Vashisthiputra Pulamayee set up the capital at Pratisthana
• Begram wa sthe summer capital of the Kushanas
• Rabatak inscription talks a great deal about the Kushanas
• Aiteraya Brahmana first talked about the Satvahanas
• Arikamedu was the first Roman station to be discovered in India
• Earliest example of Amravati art from Jaggyapeta
• Oldest Buddha idol from Katra
• The earliest use of the word "Jati" in Nirukta
• Stupa at Bahrut was the oldest one
• Kanishka adopted the title "Kaiser"
• According to some sources the 3rd Buddhist Council was held in Jalandhar
• Sarnath Buddhist image inscription of Kanishka talks about dual governorship and two governors of Kanishka-Vanspara and Kharapallana
• Patanjali was the Chief priest of Pushyamitra Shunga
• Kharvela, best remembered for the Hatigumpha inscription was the ruler of the Cheta dynasty founded by Mahameghavahana
• Greeko Bactrian king Antiklidas sent Heliodorous to King Bhagvata, a shunga ruler
• Different names of different regions-

Mathura- Arjunanya
Beas and Sutlej-Kunindya
Jalandhar-Trigarta
Ludhiana, Ambala,Karnal,Hissar,Rohtak- Yaudheya(belonged to the warrior class)

• Maues was the first saka king
• St Thomas was killed in Mylapur
• In the coins of Kanishka, we find the name Boddo for Buddha
• When the members of higher varna were mortgaged they were known as Ahitaka
• Malavas started Vikram era in 57 AD
• Asvaghosha was the first to write play in Sanskrit and Buddhacharita holds the distinction of being the first complete play in Sanskrit.He also wrote Sariputta Prakarana and Ganeshastotra
• Aziles, a shaka ruler started the Abhishekha Lakshmi coins
• Arrian's book was also titled Indica
• In Nanaghat we find the earliest portrait sculptor
• Bhasha wrote Pratimanataka
• Nagarjuna was a contemporary of Gautamiputra
• Gondophernes took the itle Devavrata
• Patanjali called sakas as anirvasita shudra
• Kushanas started Devkula or temples holding the names of the kings
• Greeks started military governorship and such governors were known as Strategors
• The post Amatya was created by the Satavahanas
• Cosmos wrote Indicopleustis and Christian Topography