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describe whole story of chanakya and the rise of the mauryan empire.

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  • Around the tome of Alexander's invasion one of the Nanda rulers,who was unpopular for his cruelty ,forced Chandragupta ,a brave warrior of the Moriya tribe to leave Magadha.
  • Chandragupta took refuge in north western India .Here he met the wise Brahman Chanakya,also called Kautilya .He wrote the book Arthashastra ,a book about how a government should be run.
  • With Chanakya help ,Chandragupta overthrew the Nandas and established the Maurya dynasty in 321 BC.
  • The Muryas had their capital at Patliputra.
  • Chandragupta conquered the territories covering Modern Afghanistan from their Greek ruler Selecus Nikator.
  • Chandragupta expanded his empire to Bihar and other parts of the eastern Gangetic Plain,central India and parts of the Deccan.
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Kautilya(also known as Chanakya, c. 350-275 BCE) was an Indian statesman and philosopher, chief advisor and Prime Minister of the Indian Emperor Chandragupta, the first ruler of the Mauryan Empire. Kautilya belonged to the Brahmin caste (the priestly class), he was originally from Northern India and a professor of political science and economics at the University of Taxila. He was fully knowledgeable concerning the Vedas literature. The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power founded by Chandragupta Maurya which dominated ancient India between c. 322 and 185 BCE. Originating from the kingdom of Magadha in the Indo-Gangetic Plain in the eastern side of the Indian subcontinent, the empire had its capital city at Pataliputra (modern Patna).The empire was the largest to have ever existed in the Indian subcontinent, spanning over 5 million square kilometres at its zenith under Ashoka.
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