confusion on cgm's birth year..a discussion

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Khushi Grover

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Posted: 14 years ago

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nhi maine topic se hatke bola na isliye bola ki marna mat ok will post the info raat ko 1 paper liya tha maine guard se us pe kuch likha hai vo hi type kar dungi dekh ke okies

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Bhargavi

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Posted: 14 years ago

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ya sure khushi...i'll wait ...bye and take care😊

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jayati

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Posted: 14 years ago

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Dear Aru,

Whatever his birth year is in nowhere it is given that CGM had a fight with Alexander, he might have met Alexander, Chanakya being a great teacher he was, might have asked his disciple to see how he manages his army because CGM would need to do it in the future but nothing beyond that...unfortunately for us Indian History is very oral, very little written unlike other civilisation, nevertheless we should take into consideration the more popular theories...

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dolly

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Posted: 14 years ago

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Originally posted by: jhum_86
friends we had discussed lots of historical debates and confusions on chandragupta maurya earlier...but there is also another confusion or debate regarding his birth year...i found the historians who followed jain texts said his birth year is around 345 b.c...and when he met alexandar he was 18 years old...and when became king was 25 years old...romila thapar is one of such historians

but historians who followed budhist texts and greek chronology...they say cgm's birth year is on 340 b.c..r.k.mukherjee..r.c.majumdar are among them..according to whom cgm was very young when he met alexandar and became king at the age of 20

so i am asking all my knowledgeable history lover fellow cgm members what do you think about this ..according to you what would be his actual birth year...come on friends share your knowledge with all sources you have consulted...

gud topic!!👏

vaise i agree wid Historyluvr that romila thapar ke liye toh phool jhadte hain!!😆😆

par sach yeh hai ki max. indian historian ki background aur thinking leftist rahi hai aur mujhe inn par zyada bharosa bhi nahi hai phir bhi romila thapar ki theories atleast cgm ke baare mein toh bilkul bhi theek nahi lagti hain!!

aur vaise history ko sirf padna nahi hota hai usska analysis karna padta hai yeh cheez hume history teacher ne coaching ke waqt batai thi!!

and abt jain texts they might b overexaggerating it as CGM later on embraced jainism so 2 glorify him & making his birth almost equavalent 2 divine they exaggerated it. like buddhist txts did wid ashoka & puyshamitra sunga. in case of ashoka they wrote that wen he ascended the throne he killed his 99 bros but after embracing buddhism after kalinga war he became non-violent &stopped even killing of animals 4 food. but its not true as oder txts of that time told that all his siblings were residing near patliputra after he ascended the throne. and though he adopted non-violence but never stopped going on a war & stopped eating non-vegetarian food. he only reduced the no. of animals 2 b killed.and even leftist historians've accepted that buddhist txts'd exaggerated it 2 glorify buddhism.

and in case of pushyamitar sunga they said that he prosecuted buddhist & destroyed their stupas etc.and i rem citing these sum pseudo-secularists started saying that even hindus'd prosecuted oder religionists. but its not true & even these leftist historian don't agree wid this & they said that pushyamitra sunga only decreased the no. of land grants given 2 buddhists & their monasteries & after mauryas he usurped the last maurya king's reign as he was weak & incapable of saving the empire & his reason 4 reducing land grants & oder priveliges 2 them was that at that time buddhist monasteries bcame the hub of monetary corruption & adutry btn monks & nuns.and this was the reason that during ashoka's time a revolt took place at takshshila & he sent his son kunal 2 subjugate it & later on ashoka came 2 know abt the corruption & all.

and one more flaw in buddhist txts 4 exaggerating abt sunga is that stupa at saanchi was renovated under his regin!!

and even i'd read that mura was a sort of concubine of dhanannad so CGM was his son but max historian r of the view that CGM was of Kshytriya origin humbled 2 bcum peacock tamers!!😊

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