🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA🇮🇳
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The Mauryan Empire, which formed around 321 B.C.E. and ended in 185 B.C.E., was the first pan-Indian empire, an empire that covered most of the Indian region. It spanned across central and northern India as well as over parts of modern-day Iran.
The Maurya Empire was centralized by the conquest of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, and its capital city was located at Pataliputra (modern Patna).
Emperors
• 322–298 BCE Chandragupta
• 298–272 BCE
Bindusara
• 268–232 BCE
Ashoka
• 232–224 BCE
Dasharatha
• 224–215 BCE
Samprati
• 215–202 BCE
Shalishuka
• 202–195 BCE
Devavarman
• 195–187 BCE
Shatadhanvan
• 187–180 BCE
Brihadratha
VEDIK GYAN:
Puranas – Purana is a vast genre of Indian literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.
There are 18 Mukhya Puranas (Major Puranas) and 18 Upa Puranas (Minor Puranas), with over 400,000 verses
Vishnu, Naradiya, Padma, Garuda, Varaha, Bhagavata, Matsya, Kurma, Linga, Shiva, Skanda, Agni, Brahmanda, Brahmavaivarta, Markandeya, Bhavishya, Vamana, Brahma
Vyasa, the narrator of the Mahabharata, is hagiographically credited as the compiler of the Puranas.
LEARN Sanskrit
उप्तं सुकृतबीजं हि सुक्षेत्रेषु महाफलम् ।
uptaṃ sukṛtabījaṃ hi sukṣētrēṣu mahāphalam ।
भावार्थ: सही स्थान पर बोया गया सुकर्म का बीज ही महान् फल देता है।
Meaning: The seed of good works, sown in the right place gives great results.
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