Mauryas - Facts to Remember

* Diodorus's account was the earliest foreign account on India and it was written in Latin whereas Arrian's account was the latest and it was written in Greek
* Dasaratha also adopted the title piyadassi
* Radhagupta helped Asoka in his battle against his brothers
* Selukos Samvat-312 BC
* Asoka's wife Tissarakha killed the Bodhi tree as she was jealous and felt his husband was spending more time with the tree
* Arthashastra was the first written evidence of census in the world
* Adeva matraka meant the land which needed no irrigation
* Asoka's mother was Subhadrangi
* Justin stated that Chandragupta met Alexander whereas Strabo tells that Chandragupta developed marital relation with CelukosMashaka was copper coin
* During Asoka the name of Barabara hills was Khalantika
* In the edict of Lauriya nandangirh there was a single lion in the capital whereas Lauriya araraj had Garuda as the capital
* I'Tsing saw Asoka's statue in monk's garb
* Asoka's daughter Charumati was married to Nepala king Devpala
* Yona meant Greek
* Nanda army in the war against the Mauryas was led by Bhaddassala
* Vishnu Purana talks about the Mauryans
* According to Parishista Parvana the Parvataka sect made an alliance with Chandragupta to depose the Nandas
* Bivita was cattle tax whereas Set was irrigation tax
* Pingalvatsa an Ajivika fortune teller first told Bindusara that one day Asoka will be the king
* The Sohugara edict talks about famine during Asoka
* Kautilya talks about 15 mixed classes or Antyavasinas
* Megasthenes calls Shiva as Dionysus and Krishna as Heracles
* The name Asoka can be found in Maski, Gujjara and Nettur edicts
* The philosophers were exempted from taxation
* In the Bhabru edict Asoka declares his faith for Buddhism
* Errgundi was the only place where both major and minor edicts of Asoka can be found