The rough guy in town...Chandragupta - Page 4

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I know most of them know about this and were posted in previous posts. just to put all this in one thread trying to post again here. most of it will be copy paste from wiki. 🤣 and other articles. 😛

Nandas

The next family which ruled over Magadha was that of the Nandas. The personal name "of the founder of this family seems to have been Nanda, which, in its plural form, became applicable to the whole family.

The name of the founder was simply as Nanda, Mahapadma is only an epithet, hinting at the riches of the king.

Nanda Dynasty

The Nanda Empire originated from the region of Magadha in Ancient India during the 5th and 4th centuries BC. At its greatest extent, the Nanda Empire extended from Bengal in the east, to Punjab in the west and as far south as the Vindhya range.

Establishment of the dynasty

Mahapadma Nanda, who has been described as the destroyer of all the Kshatriyas, defeated the Panchalas, Kasis, Haihayas, Kalingas, Asmakas, Kurus, Maithilas, Surasenas and the Vitihotras; to name a few .[citation needed]. He expanded his territory south of the Deccan plains. Mahapadma Nanda, who died at the age of 88, was the ruler of the Nanda dynasty for all but 12 of the dynasty's 100 years. The Nandas who usurped the throne of the Shishunaga dynasty were thought to be of low origin.

List of Nanda rulers

Mahapadma Nanda

Pandhuka

Panghupati

Bhutapala

Rashtrapala

Govishanaka

Dashasidkhaka

Kaivarta

Mahendra

Dhana Nanda (Argames)

Mahapadma Nanda usurped the throne of Magadha about 353 B.C.

According to the Puranas he was the son of the last descendant of Bimbisara by a Sudra woman, but the Jains and the classical writers unanimously represent his father to have been a barber.

All the authorities, however, agree that he was a low born and ambitious monarch.

The Puranas assert that many of the dynasties which ruled contemporaneously with the predecessors of Nanda, fell at his rise.

Some of them had already been overthrown by previous kings and it was left for Mahapadma to subdue the rest. The conquest of Kalinga was almost certainly accomplished by Mahapadma.

Nanda Rule

The Nandas are sometimes described as the first empire builders in the recorded history of India. They inherited the large kingdom of Magadha and wished to extend it to yet more distant frontiers. To this purpose they built up a vast army, consisting of 200,000 infantry, 20,000 cavalry, 2,000 war chariots and 3,000 war elephants (at the lowest estimates). According to Plutarch however, the size of the Nanda army was even larger, numbering 200,000 infantry, 80,000 cavalry, 8,000 war chariots, and 6,000 war elephants. However, the Nandas never had the opportunity to see their army up against Alexander, who invaded India at the time of Dhana Nanda, since Alexander had to confine his campaign to the plains of Punjab, for his forces, frightened by the prospect of facing a formidable foe, mutinied at the Hyphasis River (the modern Beas River) refusing to march any further. This river thus marks the eastern-most extent of Alexander's conquests.

"As for the Macedonians, their struggle with Porus blunted their courage and stayed their further advance into India. For having had all they could do to repulse an enemy who mustered only twenty thousand infantry and two thousand horse, they violently opposed Alexander when he insisted on crossing the river Ganges also, the width of which, as they learned, was thirty-two furlongs, its depth a hundred fathoms, while its banks on the further side were covered with multitudes of men-at-arms, including horsemen and war elephants. They were told that the kings of the Ganderites and Praesii were awaiting them with eighty thousand horsemen, two hundred thousand footmen, eight thousand chariots, and six thousand fighting elephants."

The Nandas made the collection of taxes methodical, by regularly appointed officials, a part of their administrative system. The treasury was continually replenished, the wealth of the Nandas being well-known. The Nandas also built canals and carried out irrigation projects. The possibility of an imperial structure based on an essentially agrarian economy began to germinate in the Indian mind.

The whole of the Ganges valley upto Magadha was under the rule of the Nanda family. The Nandas were at the height of their power at the time of the invasion of Alexander the Great.

Nandas were very unpopular. The chief reason of their unpopularity was the lowness of their origin. They were also hated on account of their heterodox disposition. The possession of such a huge amount of wealth also probably implies a great deal of extortion on the part of the Nandas.

There are reasons to believe that the great empire built by Mahapadma Nanda showed signs of revolt during the closing period of his reign when he rested all power in the hands of his incapable sons, specially Dhana. The minister of Dhana was Amatya Rakshasa who was loyal to Dhananand.

Magadha had already built up a considerable empire, but the worthlessness of its ruler and the invasion of a foreign king had made the conditions extremely unsettled, and a deliverer was needed. Thus, there were three factors which contributed to the rise of the Maurya empire.

The first factor consisted of the conquests effected by the previous rulers of Magadha.

The second factor was the unpopularity of the Nandas, coupled with foreign invasion.

The third factor was the genius of Chandragupta. If the first factor provided Chandragupta with the resources needed for building a great empire, the second gave him the opportunity to rise.

But, above all other things, the main cause of the rise of the glorious Maurya empire was the genius of Chandragupta, without which he would not have been able to utilise the resources and the opportunity provided by the first two factors.

Chandragupta attacked the kingdom of Nanda about 314 B. C. The story of the war between the Nandas and Chandragupta is preserved in several works. The Nanda army was commanded by Bhadrasala.

The war is reported to have been a sufficiently serious affair. According to several authorities, all the nine Nandas were killed in this war and the family of Mahapadma was exterminated.

Chandragupta tool over the Magadha and became a king. Amatya Raksha tried to kill him several times but Chanakya saved him all the time.

Chanakya plotted various plans against Rakshasa to change him and made him finally the prime minister of Chandragupta. (full details will be given in Chandragupta's history).

Note: reg. my next post will update it soon.

Swetha

@bold: mein janthi hoon ki tum janthi ho.

uss me se 1/4th part tumhare post se hi tho copy past kiya hai dear. 🤣 😆 oo 9 nandas vala tho doondne ka samay nahi thi so copied. 😛

Swetha

awesome work swetha...now I am really impressed!!!!👏

BTW how is ur health now.????????

nice update. yes i saw these names recently in some article but want to update first what i have mentioned in previous post. any way thanks for the post.

Swetha

actually I planned to write something else which was about the history of Amatya Rakshas and what happened between him and chanakya after cgm became king...and the track of cgm's 3rd wife which I told u in pm...but then i thought that I should share the basic info first...I've been always interested in names of the rulers...[especially names given by foreign historians]

so this time I wrote abt the names and their meanings...

Hope everyone likes it and finds it interesting...

and...Get well soon dear.😊...kaho to comments mein kuch fruits ke naam bhi include kar doon...who knows??? weakness khatm ho jaye!!!!😆

100 posts pure huye mere!!!!!!!

although I know...it's not a matter of party but still...

...party time!!!!!!