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Bindusara (320 BCE – 273 BCE) (r. c. 297 – c. 273 BCE) was the second Mauryan emperor of Magadha in Ancient India. The ancient Greco-Roman writers called him Amitrochates, a name likely derived from his Sanskrit title Amitraghāta ("slayer of enemies").
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18 lip 2024 · Again, Ashoka's mother is named as Janapadakalyani in a legend in ‘Divyavadana’ while she is named as Dhamma in ‘Vamsatthappakasini’. Bindusara’s time of death and the information about how Ashoka succeeded to the throne differs in different sources.
21 maj 2024 · Various Hindu Puranas mention Bindusara as the son of Chandragupta Maurya while Buddhist texts, specifically, The Dipavamsa, mentions Bindusara to be the son of king Shishuganga, who belonged to the Haryanka dynasty (that earlier ruled Magadha).
Again, Ashoka's mother is named as Janapadakalyani in a legend in ‘Divyavadana’ while she is named as Dhamma in ‘Vamsatthappakasini’. Bindusara’s time of death and the information about how Ashoka succeeded to the throne differs in different sources.
She is stated by this text to be the mother of the second Mauryan emperor, Bindusara also known as Amitraghāta. [ 2 ] According to the Jain tradition, after Chandragupta defeated the Nanda emperor, the Nanda princess fell in love with Chandragupta and married him. [ 3 ]
The mother of Ashoka and Vigatashoka was a woman named Subhadrangi, the daughter of a Brahmin of the Champa city. When she was born, an astrologer named Pingalwatsa predicted that one of her sons would be an emperor, and the other a religious man.
