Southern Conquest

Southern conquest :

After annexing Seleucus' japanese Persian provinces, Chandragupta had a giant empire extending across the northern parts of Indian Sub-continent, from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea. Chandragupta then started out expanding his empire additional south beyond the barrier of the Vindhya range and into the Deccan Plateau except the Tamil regions (Pandya, Chera, Chola and Satyaputra) and Kalinga (cutting-edge day Odisha).  The noted Tamil poet Mamulanar of the Sangam literature additionally described how the Deccan Plateau used to be invaded via the Maurya navy. By the time his conquests had been entire, Chandragupta had succeeded in unifying most of Southern Asia. Megasthenes later recorded the scale of Chandragupta's military as 400,000 infantrymen, according to Strabo:

Megasthenes was in the camp of Sandrocottus,
However, Pliny, who also drew from Megasthenes' work, gives even better numbers of 600,000 infantry, 30,000 cavalry, and 9,000 warfare elephants:

however the Prasii surpass in vigor and glory each different men and women, not simplest in this quarter, however one may say in all India, their capital Palibothra, an awfully tremendous and rich metropolis, after which some call the persons itself the Palibothri,--nay even the entire tract along the Ganges. Their king has in his pay a standing navy of 600,000-foot-squaddies, 30,000 cavalry, and 9,000 elephants: whence is also formed some conjecture as to the vastness of his assets.

Jainism and demise :

The final shruta-kevali, Bhadrabahu swami was a Jain Acharya. He was a non secular teacher of Chandragupta Maurya and wrote a couple of texts involving Jainism, together with Uvasagharam Stotra. Bhadrabahu and his student Chandragupta Maurya, are believed to have meditated there Chandragupta Basadi. Chandragupta adopted Jainism after voluntarily renouncing the throne. He gave up his throne at the opening of the 0.33 century BC when he was forty-two years historic and became an ascetic below the final Shrutakevali Bhadrabahu, migrating south with them and ending his days in sallekhana (loss of life with the aid of fasting) consistent with Jain spiritual lifestyle at Śravaṇa Beḷgoḷa in gift-day Karnataka, though fifth-century inscriptions in the area support the inspiration of a greater southern migration round that point.

Successors :

After Chandragupta's renunciation, his son Bindusara succeeded because the Maurya Emperor. He maintained friendly members of the family with Greek governors in Asia and Egypt. Bindusara's son Ashoka the best grew to be probably the most influential rulers in India's history because of his extension of the Empire to the complete Indian subcontinent as good as his function within the international propagation of Buddhism.