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Ancestry of Chandragupta Maurya : ウィキペディア英語版 | Ancestry of Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Maurya Empire, was a ruler from the kshatriya varna. He overthrew the shudra ruler Dhananada of the Nanda Empire and reestablished ''kshatriya'' rule over the Indian subcontinent. Ashoka was the grandson of Chandragupta, and expanded the kingdom. ==Identification of Maurya with Sandrokottos==
Little is known about Chandragupta Maurya's origins. For two centuries historians have been attempting to establish the chronology of early India, which includes the question of whether Chandragupta is the figure known in ancient Greek texts as Sandrokottos. Philologist William Jones began systematic study of early India during the late 18th century.〔(Hindu Books Universe - Content )〕 Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indologists were reluctant to believe traditional Indian accounts of the past.〔Arthur A. MacDonell wrote, "Early India wrote no history because it never made any. The ancient Indians never went through a struggle for life like the Greeks, the Persians and the Romans. Secondly, the Brahmanas early embraced the doctrine that all action and existence are a positive evil and could therefore have felt but little inclination to chronicle historical events."〕 Subsequent scholars accepted the identity of Sandrokottos with Chandragupta Maurya. James Prinsep deciphered Brāhmī script script and was able to read the inscriptions of Piyadassin (Ashoka). George Turnour found in the Ceylonese chronicles that Piyadassin was used as an alternate name for Ashoka, grandson of Chandragupta Maurya. An inscription with Piyadassin as a name for Ashoka was not found until Turnour's era. In 1838 Prinsep found five names of Yona kings in Ashoka's inscriptions and identified them as the five Greek kings, successors of Alexander in the third century BC, who were contemporaries of Ashoka.
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