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  Indian History - Bindusara
Bindusara inherited an empire including the Hindukush, Narmada, Vindhyas, Mysore, Bihar, Bengal, Orissa, Assam, Baluchistan and Afghanistan.
Bindusara extended his empire further as far as south Mysore.
Bindusara maintained good relations with Selucus Nicator and the emperors regularly exchanged ambassadors and presents.
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 Bindusara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bindusara extended the this empire to the southern part of India, as far as what is now known as Karnataka.
Bindusara didn't conquer the friendly Dravidian kingdoms of the Cholas, Pandyas, and Cheras.
Bindusara died in 272 BC (some records say 268 BC) and was succeeded by his son Ashoka the Great.
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 Bindusara
Bindusara inherited a large empire that consisted of what is now, North, Central and East India and the parts of Afghanistan and Baluchistan.
Bindusara is known as "The Son of a Father and the Father of a Son" because he was the son of a great father Chandragupta Maurya and father of a great son Ashoka, the Great.
Bindusara campaigned in the Deccan, extending the Mauryan empire in the peninsula to as far as Mysore.
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 Chanakya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bindusara would go on to become a great king and to father the greatest Mauryan Emperor since Chandragupta - Asoka.
When Bindusara became a youth, Chandragupta gave up the throne and followed the Jain saint Bhadrabahu to present day Karnataka and settled in a place known as Sravana Belagola.
Bindusara meanwhile heard the full story of his birth from the nurses and rushed to beg forgiveness of Chanakya.
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 Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
Following this prophecy, the "Legend of Ashoka" further states that Ashoka was finally born as the son of the Mauryan Emperor Bindusara by a relatively lower ranked queen named Dharma.
Dharma was said to be the daughter of a poor Brahmin who introduced her into the harem of the Emperor as it was predicted that her son would be a great ruler.
The eldest of them, Prince Susima, the traditional heir to the throne, persuaded Bindusara to send Ashoka to quell an uprising in the city of Takshashila in the north-west province of Sindh, of which Prince Susima was the governor.
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 Ashoka - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ashoka was the son of the Mauryan emperor Bindusara by a relatively lower ranked Queen known as Dharma.
The eldest of them, Prince Susima, the traditional heir to the throne, persuaded Bindusara to send Ashoka to quell an uprising in the city of Taxila in the north-west province of Sindh, of which Prince Susima was the governor.
It was quite unacceptable to Bindusara that one of his sons should marry a Buddhist, so he did not allow Ashoka to stay in Pataliputra, but instead sent him back to Ujjain and made him the governor of Ujjain.
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 Ashoka - TheBestLinks.com - Afghanistan, Aurangzeb, Ahimsa, Buddhism, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As goes the folklore in India, Ashoka was the son of Bindusara by a relatively lower ranked Queen known as Dharma.
Bindusara had 100 sons before Ashoka, but because of his exemplary intellect and warrior skills, he was the favourite of his grandfather Chandragupta Maurya.
The eldest of them, Prince Susima, heir to the throne by the Hindu code of law, conspired and persuaded Bindusara to send Ashoka to quell an uprising in the city of Taxila in the north-west province of Sindh, of which Prince Susima was the governor.
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 mauryas
Chandragupta Maurya's son Bindusara became the new Mauryan Emperor by inheriting an empire including the Hindukush, Narmada, Vindhyas,Mysore, Bihar, Bengal, Orissa, Assam, Baluchistan and Afghanistan.
Bindusara inherited an empire including the Hindukush, Narmada, Vindhyas, Mysore, Bihar, Bengal, Orissa, Assam, Baluchistan and Afghanistan.Bindusara extended his empire further as far south as Mysore.
Ashoka, the most trusted son of Bindusara and the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, was a brave soldier.
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 Bhojpuria People - People, who made us proud...
Bindusara asked the nurses who confirmed this story and he became very angry with Chanakya.
Bindusara meanwhile heard the full story of his birth from the nurses and rushed to beg forgiveness of Chanakya.
Bindusara went back and vent his fury on Subandhu, who asked for time to beg for forgiveness from Chanakya.
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 Mauryan Empire, Mauryan Dynasty, Chandragupta Maurya, Bindusara, Ashoka, Ashoka'S Dhamma
Most of our knowledge about the Mauryan period in general and the rule of Chandragupta in particular is obtained from two important literary sources: the Arthashastra, written by Chanakya, and Indica, written by the ancient Greek writer Megasthenes (who was an ambassador of Seleucus Nikator and had come to the court of Chandragupta).
Bindusara extended the Mauryan Empire southwards in the Indian peninsula as far as Mysore.
Bindusara was succeeded by his son Ashoka, the most famous of the Mauryan Kings.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bindusara stared at it, struggling to maintain his usual cool exterior.
First, the stats: Bindusara, Historian of the Kindred Ventrue Group: 2 Capacity: 9 AUS DOM FOR PRE tha Bindusara can take an action to allow you to search your library for an Elder Library, Arcane Library, or Fragment of the Book of Nod; put that card in play.
All in all, Bindusara is a pretty solid-looking vampire, but he generally gets ignored for one critical flaw — 9 pool is too much to pay for a Ventrue with no title.
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 Bindusara - Definition, explanation
Bindusara inherited a large empire that consisted of North, Central and East India as also the parts of Afghanistan and Baluchistan.
He brought sixteen states under the Mauryan Empire and thus conquered almost all of the Indian peninsula (he is said to have conquered the 'land between the two seas' - the peninsular region between the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea).
Unlike his father Chandragupta (who was a Jain), he believed in the Ajivika (an atheist and anti-Brahamanical philosophy).
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 Bindusara in India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bindusara was the second Mauryan emperor and the son of Chandragupta Maurya.
Kalinga (the modern Orissa) was the only kingdom in India which did not form part of Bindusara's empire.
Bindusara passed away in 272 BC and was succeeded by his son Ashoka.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bindusara was born before his father ever became Emperor so the below legend is definitely not true.
Bindusara means one who encompasses all that is need to be known.
Later on, Ajivikism which was the official religion of the empire since the Kalinga War (261 BC) and for 14 years afterwards, declined and merged into traditional Hinduism.
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 Uttaranchal/Uttarakhand Information Centre
Ashoka was the son of the Mauryan emperor Bindusara by a relatively lower ranked Queen known as Dharma.
The eldest of them, Prince Susima, the traditional heir to the throne, persuaded Bindusara to send Ashoka to quell an uprising in the city of Taxila in the north-west province of Sindh, of which Prince Susima was the governor.
It was quite unacceptable to Bindusara that one of his sons should marry a Buddhist, so he did not allow Ashoka to stay in Pataliputra, but instead sent him back to Ujjain and made him the governor of Ujjain.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bindusara's campaign stopped in the vicinity of Karnataka, probably because the territories of the extreme south, such as those of the Colas, Pandyas, and Ceras, were well-disposed in their relations toward the Mauryas.
Bindusara was succeeded by his son Ashoka, either directly in 272 BC or, after an interregnum of four years, in 268 BC (some historians say c.
He issued a large number of edicts, which were inscribed in many parts of the empire and were composed in Prakrit, Greek, and Aramaic, depending on the language current in a particular region.
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 Maurya dynasty
Bindusara had some contacts with the far west, where Antiochus I Soter had succeeded his father Seleucus as king of the Seleucid empire.
Bindusara approached him, asking for wine, figs, and a philosopher - the king sending him only the two first products, saying that philosophers were not fit for export.
He erected several stupas, founded Buddhist monasteries, softened the harsh laws of Bindusara and Chandragupta, forbade the brutal slaughter of animals, and organized a large Buddhist council at Patna, which had to establish a new canon of sacred texts and repress heresies.
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 The Mauryas
Bindusara (299 - 274 BC) succeeded Chandragupta Maurya.
Though the cause for the second revolution is not known, it could not be suppressed by Bindusara due to his untimely death.
Ashoka was the second son of Bindusara and was the viceroy of Ujjain during Bindusara's reign.
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 The Theosophy Trust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bindusara followed his father's foreign policy, retained his chief ministers, including Kautilya, and ruled for at least a quarter of a century.
Though Bindusara followed the precepts of Vedic religion, he favoured the ascetic Ajivaka community, using Ajivaka sages as counsellors in the way his father had availed himself of Jain advisors.
His childhood is unknown, though he must have been a brilliant child amongst remarkable siblings, for Bindusara strengthened his reign and the empire by dispatching his sons to serve as viceroys in distant provinces.
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 Ashoka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ashoka was the son of the Mauryan Emperor Bindusara by a relatively lower ranked queen named Dharma.
Dharma was said to be the daughter of a poor Brahmin who introduced her into the harem of the Emperor as it was predicted that her son would be a great ruler.
The eldest of them, Prince Susima, the traditional heir to the throne, persuaded Bindusara to send Ashoka to quell an uprising in the city of Takshashila in the north-west province of Sindh, of which Prince Susima was the governor.
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 cast & crew
Bindusara discovered the ability of his son quire early and, when Asoka was still young, appointed him Governor of Avanti.
Bindusara's eldest son, Susima was called but could not put down the rebellion.
During Bindusara's reign and at the beginning of Asoka's reign Kalinga must have improved its armed forces considerably.
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 People Asoka - Biographies Of Great Indians
Bindusara siscovered the ability of his son quire early and, when Ashoka was still young, appointed him Governor of Avanti.
Emperor Bindusara had won the title ‘Amitraghatha’ (one who strikes those who are unfriendly).
During Bindusara's reign and at the beginning of Ashoka's reign Kalinga must have improved its armed forces considerably.
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 Ashoka: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
His growing popularity across the empire made his elder brothers wary of his chances of being favoured by Bindusara (Bindusara: bindusara was the second mauryan emperor (298 bc297 - c.272 bc) after chandragupta...
It was quite unacceptable to Bindusara that one of his sons should marry a Buddhist (Buddhist: One who follows the teachings of Buddha), so he did not allow Ashoka to stay in Pataliputra (Pataliputra: patna is the capital city of bihar, a state located in north-eastern india....
Bindusara (Bindusara: bindusara was the second mauryan emperor (298 bc297 - c.272 bc) after chandragupta...
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 Chanakya
Ashoka's daughter was married in 265 BC and his son Kunala was 18 years of age in 269 BC which means that even if the princes married early, Ashoka was born 310 BC and Bindusara around 330 BC.
Bindusara would go on to become a great king and to father the greatest Mauryan Emperor since Chandragupta - Asoka.
When Bindusara became a youth, Chandragupta gave up the throne and followed the Jain saint Bhadrabahu to present day Karnataka and settled in a place known as Sravana Belagola.
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