**Chandragupta Maurya** – Maurya Samrajya ke sansthapak, jinhone Chanakya ki madad se Nanda

Samay: Lagbhag 340 BCE mein janm, aur lagbhag 321 BCE se 297 BCE tak shasan kiya. Guru/salahkar: Chanakya (Kautilya), jinhone Arthashastra likha, unki madad se Chandragupta ne Nanda vansh ke aakhri raja Dhanananda ko haraya aur Magadh ki gaddi paayi. Rajdhani: Pataliputra (aaj ka Patna). Vistar: Unka samrajya uttar-pashchim mein Afghanistan/Baluchistan ke kuch hisson se lekar purv mein Bengal tak, aur dakshin mein Deccan ke kaafi hisse tak faila tha. Yunani se yuddh: Lagbhag 305 BCE mein unhone Sikandar ke senapati Seleucus I Nicator ko haraya. Sandhi mein Seleucus ne apna ilaaka diya aur badle mein Chandragupta ne usse 500 haathi diye. Yunani doot Megasthenes unke darbar mein aaya aur Indica likhi. Shasan vyavastha: Ek majboot kendriya prashasan, badi sena, jasoosi tantra aur kar vyavastha. Ant: Kaha jata hai ki unhone gaddi apne bete Bindusara ko saunp di aur Jain muni Bhadrabahu ke saath dakshin mein Shravanabelagola (Karnataka) chale gaye, jahan unhone sallekhana ke zariye dehtyag kiya. Unke pote Ashoka aage chalkar Maurya vansh ke sabse mashhoor samrat bane.