The Mauryan Empire is arguably the most legendary empire in Indian history.

Born in 321 B.C. and ending in 185 B.C., it was the famous slave dynasty of Magadha in ancient India, and its founding monarch was Chandragupta.

Chandragupta is also known as the Moon Protector King, and the reason why the dynasty he established is called the Mauryan Dynasty is because his surname is Peacock. Legend has it that Chandragupta's family has been raising peacocks for a living since ancient times.

In 321 B.C., Chandragupta established himself as king of Magadha. He then raised an army of 30,000 cavalry, 9,000 elephants, and 600,000 infantry.

Elephant soldiers are extremely impactful, and they have been used in Indian history since ancient times, but most of them are not effective when fighting with elephants. The reason is that elephants, unlike horses, are easily frightened and run wild, and all soldiers, regardless of whether they are friends or enemies, suffer from them.

However, Chandragupta seemed to be able to communicate with animals, so the elephant soldiers he formed were brave and invincible.

Chandragupta led his army to attack Alexander the Great's military fortress in India, captured the Punjab, and extended his territory from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea, and then he attacked south, expanding his territory to the Deccan Plateau.

In 305 BCE, the Seleucid invasion that had inherited Alexander's Asian possessions was fought by Chandragupta.

The war was fought by both sides, and in the end they each gave way, and in 302 BC, the two sides reached a peace treaty.

In 298 BCE, Chandragupta converted to Jainism, an ancient religion in India, and he passed the throne to his son Bintusara.

After Bintou Sara succeeded to the throne, he suppressed the people's uprising in the Yaksha Sira region and maintained the unity of the empire.

After the death of Bintusara, he was succeeded by his son Ashoka. Ashoka was the third emperor of the Mauryan Empire and the most famous monarch of the Mauryan Empire.

Eight years after his accession to the throne, Emperor Ashoka conquered Kalinga. In this war, hundreds of thousands of people died in Karlinga. From Chandragupta to Ashoka, after three generations of three monarchs, the Mauryan Empire reached its heyday.

The population of the Mauryan Empire reached 26.5 million in the middle of Ashoka's reign (250 BC).

In the same year, he declared Buddhism the state religion of India, convened a large number of Buddhist monks to compile Buddhist scriptures, and built a large number of Buddhist temples and stupas around the world, and a large number of them have survived.

Emperor Ashoka also sent a large number of emissaries and monks, including princes and princesses, to neighboring countries to preach. Buddhism soon spread throughout Ceylon, even as far as Egypt, Burma, and China.

Soon after Ashoka's death, the Mauryan Empire began to decline, and India was again divided into several states.

In 187 BC, the last king of the Mauryan Empire, the King of the Giant Carriage, was killed by his ministers during a military parade, and the Mauryan Dynasty officially ended.

But according to the information I inquired before, the Mauryan Dynasty in ancient Indian history lasted for more than 100 years, and it has experienced nine monarchs, which monarch's tomb is this mausoleum?

After pondering for a moment, he looked at the crowd of people sitting and praying around the mausoleum, and said that if he was not mistaken, this tomb belonged to Emperor Ashoka.

I was puzzled, thinking that the stammering monk was pretending to beep, he had never been to India, and he was afraid that he already knew Indian culture, why was he so sure?

Affectionately explained, saying that there were many emperors in the Mauryan Empire, but the religions of the monarchs were different.

The founding father, Chandragupta, embraced the ancient Jain religion and eventually renounced his throne and went to the forest to do asceticism, eventually dying of hunger strike according to his teachings.

Later monarchs such as Devavama, Sattatola, and the King of the Great Chariot believed in Brahmanism, and only a few intermediate emperors such as Ashoka believed in Buddhism.

The number of peacocks carved on the mausoleum is nine, and nine have a deep connection with Buddhism, and the entire Mauryan Dynasty reached the peak of national power during the reign of Emperor Ashoka, so the owner of this tomb is likely to be Emperor Ashoka.

My understanding of Indian history and the Mauryan Dynasty only stayed in the information found on the Internet, and we only heard of the name Ashoka, most of which is because of the many stupas that exist today.

Affectionately introduced to us, saying that Ashoka, the monarch, had a very high status in Buddhism, and was known as the Dharma Protector King and the King of Sanssouci, and finally got the fruit of the Great Dao Correction and left.

The legend of his life shocked the world, and the Buddhist saying "put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the ground" is to describe Ashoka.

In the following time, the stammering monk began to tell me and the fat man about the godlike life of Ashoka.

The founding monarch of the Mauryan Dynasty, Chandragupta, was good at conquest and was known for his brutality, as the saying goes, the tiger father has no dog son, and the second monarch of the dynasty, Bintou Sala, is not the son of Chandragupta.

He reigned for more than 20 years, during which time he also went on expeditions and continued to expand the territory of the Mauryan Empire.

At the same time, in terms of diplomacy, he also had exchanges and contacts with many Hellenistic countries of the time, such as the Seleucid Empire in Central Asia and the Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt.

Bintou Suluo was so busy that he forgot one major event when he was dying, that is, to establish the successor to the crown prince.

There was originally an open and secret struggle in the court, and there was no prince in the history of our Celestial Empire, and there were many princes who caused the princes to kill each other. For example, the sons of Qin Shi Huang were all slaughtered by Qin II Hu Hai.

Human nature is strikingly similar, and the Indian Bintou Sara did not have a prince, and his sons staged a similar drama.

It is said that there were no more than 100 princes in Bintusara, and Emperor Ashoka was one of them. Inheriting the bloodline of his grandfather and father, he has interpreted brutality and cruelty to the extreme, and along the way, blood is everywhere.

Ashoka showed great fighting power from an early age, and it is said that he once killed a lion with just a wooden stick. At the age of 18, he was sent to the province of Abanti as governor.

It was originally a large country in ancient India called Abanti, which was later destroyed by the Mauryan Empire and is now a province. Of course, the provinces of this period BC were completely different from the "states" of present-day India.

Although it has been many years since the destruction of the country, the people of this place are still fierce, do not obey the management, and often carry out armed struggles in the local area. Because of his bravery, Emperor Ashoka sent him here, and his main job was to suppress local opposition.

But just as Emperor Ashoka was suppressing the rebellion in the province of Abanti, the news of his father's death came. Hearing the news, Emperor Ashoka did not hesitate and immediately led his troops back to the capital city of Fahrenheit to snatch the throne.

And who are his main competitors? This person is his half-brother, named Su Shenmo.

The elder brother led the army to another province to suppress the rebellion there, but his father died, and he rushed back to Fahrenheit City to seize the throne. There is only one throne, and there are hundreds of people who think about it.

How to solve it? Only copy guys to do it!

Ashoka and Su Shenmo fought together, and in the end, it was Ashoka who was superior and defeated Su Shenmo. Although Su Shenmo was defeated and died, Bintou Suluo was not only these two sons, these princes theoretically had the right to inherit the throne.

In the end, Ashoka bit his heart and thought that he was a small non-gentleman, non-toxic and not a husband, I'm sorry brothers, you all go down to accompany our father! Bye bye......