Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c22.24

c22.24

Chāndasa speech, 316. Chanda-Siri, (Chandraśrī), see Chandragupta, 139. Chaṇḍāśoka, 301. Chandrabhāgā (Sandraphagos), 65, 315. Chandrag(k)upta (Sandrakoptas Sandrac (k) ottus, Andrakottos, Piyadassana, Chandagupta, Chandairi, Piadamsana, Vrishla, Xandrammes) 1, 4, 12, 14, 22, 23, 89, 90n, 101, 132, 139, 140, 152, 155n, 165, 165n, 168, 175, 176, 182, 206, 208, 223, 243, 315, 358, 390; accession of, 166, 206; achievement of Indian freedom by 139; ancestry of, 140-42; and Bhadrabāhu, 299; Brahmanic learning under, 324; building of pāṭaliputra and the palace by, 345, 346; chronology of 136-39; 207n; civil administration under, 157-158; conquest of Bhadrśāla by, 156; conquest of North West India by, 149-154; 261; consorts of, 159-160; and contemporary religions, 164-65; control of, over western India, 20; defeat of Seleucus by, 130, 156, 159, 169, 273, 353-354; early career of 142-44; extent of the empire of, 155-156; 352; hostility of, to non-monarchical states, 173; influence of Alexander's invasion of India, on the career of, 79; Jain traditions about the abdication of, 165; Justin on the oppression of, 148; Kautilya Chancellor of, 191; language of, 313; legends about, 23; private life of 160, 162; literary interest of the period of, 163-64; Malwa and Gujarat, parts of the empire of, 18; Mauryan revolution by, 24-25; meeting of, with Alexander, 12, 14, 137, 142, 144; Megasthenes sent by Seleucus as ambassador to the court of, 89; and the Mysore territory, 155, 249, 341; and the N. W. route, 271-2; origin of, 139, 142 and n; palace of, 188; personal gifts of, 163; Plutarch on, 141; political organisation of, and foreign models, 173-74; residence of, 158 and n; Rostovtzeff on, 198; sabhā of, 160-61; sources for the reign of, 133-135; strength of the army of, 188; Subandhu, a minister of, 329; theft in the camp of, 117; uprooting of the Nandas by, 145-146; war of with the prefects of Alexander, 145.