Chandragupta maurya first king

The Chandragupta Maurya
( 321- 297 BCE) 

Whenever we talk United India, the first name comes from the Chandragupta maurya.

Chandragupta maurya who was the founder of the mauryan empire in ancient India. He was taught and counselled by the #Philosopher, great teacher, scholar aacharya chanakya, who had great influence in the formation of his empire.

Together chandragupt and chanakya build one of the  largest empire on The Indian subcontinent. Chandragupt's life and accomplishments are described in in ancient Greek, Hindu, Buddhist and Jaina text, but they vary significantly. 

In ancient Greek and Latin accounts, chandragupta is referred as Sandrokottos and Androcottu

 Early life 

  The early life of chandragupta maurya is unclear and varies by sources. According to the Sinhalese Buddhist tradition, chandragupt's mother was pregnant when his father , who was the chief of the Moriya clan , was killed in a battle . His mother went to patliputra with the help of her brother. For chandragupt safety, his maternal uncle helped a cowherd adopt him, when chandragupt grew up , the cowherd sold him to a haunter who employed him to tend cattle. 

Meeting with chanakya

One day chandragupt was playing the game of royals with his cowherd friends at village. Chandragupta became the king and some of his friend become sub king and courtiers and a few become judges. He sat in the judgement and few kids were brought who were culprits. 

Chandragupt punished culprits like a royal king. His friend offers him gifts in a play. They all acted as a real. 

Chanakya, the Brahmin teacher who vas passing by date village observed this play act by the kids and was impressed by chandragupta maurya. Chanakya was looking for a person to help him avenge his insult by dhananand the Nanda ruler of that time in court. 

Chanakya went to the father of chandragupta and offered to pay  a thousand gold coin and to hando chandragupt under his care. 

Great Stories of chandragupta

1. This is his story from when he was 14 years old. Acharya Chanakya had seen a ray of hope in him and had decided to make him the emporor of India. Chandragupta had already started preparing an army and was respected by all his chiefs. On one such occasion he was sleeping under a tree near a Greek camp. A lion happened to pass by the place. He went near the great ruler and roared loudly. Chandragupta opened his eyes and looked at him as if he was an ant. The lion stood there for a while, he then went near the king and licked of the sweat comming from his forehead. A greek general called Leonardes was watching this. Leonardes had earlier played a role in the murder of Porus. Leonardes approached Chandragupta and asked him how the lion had left him. Chandragupta replied that the lion had seen fearlessness in his eyes. Leonardes mockingly asked him if he was scares of the Greeks. To this Chandragupta said “ As an Indian I am not scared of anyone, invaders like yourself will soon be kicked out.” He then described in great detail about how Indian culture is superior to that of the Greeks. Furious, Leonardes ordered his men to kill the young lad. However to his surprise, Chandragupta single handedly killed atleast 50 of his men. Enraged Leonardes attacked the boy only to be behaded. The Greek army fled fearing that the boy may have backups. It was then that Chandragupta took an oath to kick out the Greeks from India. The stories about his love with Helen are all fake. It was purely a political move to ensure the defeated Seleucus would never again evil eye the Mauryan empire.

2.Chandragupta Maurya falls in love with a girl in his youth, at this time he is strategizing to fight Dhanananda. Acharya Chanakya comes to know this and he calls Chandragupta and explains to him that if you deviate from your goal as attraction towards someone else, you will not be able to achieve that goal throughout your life. One is this attraction that confuses humans with its path. By explaining this type of Acharya, Chandragupta understands and gets involved in strategy.

3. One day chandragupt practicing warfare in the the hospice of chanakya some of his classmates try to bullying him and called him to climb big tree accept it and started climbing but he falls down and cried so loudly. When chanakya came to know about this he explained chandragupt about the hurdles of life which comes on each and every step of life. But some instance are not so important with our knowledge and  clever we should skip it.

4 . At a time when Chandragupta had grown up, Chanakya and the two together were making a strategy to defeat Dhanananda, both of them have made many efforts such as splitting into the army, sending secret thieves. But both of them were not able to succeed 1 day both of them sat outside a hut in the forest, in that hut a mother and her son lived. The mother had made hot khichdi that day, the son goes to eat with his hand in it and his hand burns, then his mother tells him that she should not be rash like Chandragupta and Chanakya, it will be easy to cool and eat the khichdi again. .

Chanakya understood this incident and he gradually destroyed the entire kingdom of Dhanananda and established his Mauryan empire.This incident brought an important time in the lives of both Chandragupta and Chanakya.

"Chandragupta became king " 

Now chandragupta became the king of maurya dynasty. Chandragupta maurya married twice. First To durdhara , who was a sister/ daughter of Dhananda , in around 322 Bce and received a son from her - Bindusara.

His second wife was Helena , who was the daughter of seleucus nicator and married her in 304- 303 BCE as he defeated the Greek king . 

he was one of the most powerful emperor of Indian subcontinent he defeated many rulers across the subcontinent he was the first who United the whole  subcontinent first . 

Conclusion 

Brahminical text called  chandragupta from lower origin ( shudra) but he became the king by the help of his master aacharya chanakya. Chandragupt faces many problems and hurdles in his lifetime that's why he succeed in achieve his goal. 

So we can conclude that one can with the help of his master or guru achieve goal and success in life. "Hurdles are temporary aim is permanent".