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Brihadratha Maurya, the Glossary

Index Brihadratha Maurya

Brihadratha was the 9th and last Emperor of the Mauryan Empire.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 28 relations: Afghanistan, Ashoka, Bāṇabhaṭṭa, Bihar, Demetrius I of Bactria, Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti, Eucratides I, Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Harshacharita, Harvard University Press, India, Indo-Greek Kingdom, List of Maurya emperors, Magadha, Mathura, Maurya Empire, Pañcāla, Pakistan, Pataliputra, Punjab, Puranas, Pushyamitra Shunga, Sāketa, Senapati, Shatadhanvan, Shunga Empire, The Asiatic Society, Yuga Purana.

  2. 2nd-century BC Indian monarchs
  3. 2nd-century BC murdered monarchs
  4. Indian Buddhist monarchs
  5. Mauryan dynasty
  6. Mauryan emperors
  7. Murdered Indian monarchs

Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Ashoka

Ashoka, also known as Asoka or Aśoka (– 232 BCE), and popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was Emperor of Magadha in the Indian subcontinent from until 232 BCE, and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynasty. Brihadratha Maurya and Ashoka are Indian Buddhist monarchs, Indian Buddhists and Mauryan emperors.

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Bāṇabhaṭṭa

Bāṇabhaṭṭa (बाणभट्ट) was a 7th-century Sanskrit prose writer and poet from India.

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Bihar

Bihar is a state in Eastern India.

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Demetrius I of Bactria

Demetrius I Anicetus (Dēmētrios Anikētos, "Demetrius the unconquered"), also called Damaytra was a Greco-Bactrian and later Indo-Greek king (Yona in Pali language, "Yavana" in Sanskrit) (reigned c. 200–167 BC), who ruled areas from Bactria to ancient northwestern India.

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Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti

Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti (born 27 April 1941 -) is an Indian archaeologist, Professor Emeritus of South Asian Archaeology at Cambridge University, and a Senior Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University.

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Eucratides I

Eucratides I (Εὐκρατίδης, Eukratídēs, reigned 172/171–145 BC), also called Eucratides the Great, and Evukratida in Indian sources, was one of the most important Greco-Bactrian kings.

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Greco-Bactrian Kingdom

The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (lit) was a Greek state of the Hellenistic period located in Central Asia.

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Harshacharita

The Harshacharita (हर्षचरित,; English: The deeds of Harsha) is the biography of Indian emperor Harsha by Banabhatta, also known as Bana, who was a Sanskrit writer of seventh-century CE India.

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Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indo-Greek Kingdom

The Indo-Greek Kingdom, or Graeco-Indian Kingdom, also known as the Yavana Kingdom (also Yavanarajya after the word Yona, which comes from Ionians), was a Hellenistic-era Greek kingdom covering various parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and northwestern India.

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List of Maurya emperors

The Maurya Empire (c. 322–185 BCE) was an ancient Indian empire. Brihadratha Maurya and List of Maurya emperors are Mauryan emperors.

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Magadha

Magadha also called the Kingdom of Magadha or the Magadha Empire, was a kingdom and empire, and one of the sixteen lit during the Second Urbanization period, based in southern Bihar in the eastern Ganges Plain, in Ancient India.

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Mathura

Mathura is a city and the administrative headquarters of Mathura district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Maurya Empire

The Maurya Empire (Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀫𑀸𑀕𑀥𑁂, Māgadhe) was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia based in Magadha (present day Bihar).

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Pañcāla

Panchala was an ancient kingdom of northern India, located in the Ganges-Yamuna Doab of the Upper Gangetic plain which is identified as Kanyakubja or region around Kannauj.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Pataliputra

Pataliputra (IAST), adjacent to modern-day Patna, Bihar, was a city in ancient India, originally built by Magadha ruler Ajatashatru in 490 BCE, as a small fort near the Ganges river.

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Punjab

Punjab (also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb), also known as the Land of the Five Rivers, is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is specifically located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern-Pakistan and northwestern-India.

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Puranas

Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.

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Pushyamitra Shunga

Pushyamitra Shunga (IAST) or Pushpamitra Shunga (IAST) (ruled) was the founder and the first ruler of the Shunga Empire which he established to succeed the Maurya Empire. Brihadratha Maurya and Pushyamitra Shunga are 2nd-century BC Indian monarchs.

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Sāketa

Sākēta is a Sanskrit appellation of the Indian city of Ayodhya.

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Senapati

Senapati (Sanskrit: सेनापति; sena- meaning "army", -pati meaning "lord") is a title in ancient India denoting the rank of General.

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Shatadhanvan

Shatadhanvan or Shatadhanus was the 8th Emperor of the Maurya dynasty. Brihadratha Maurya and Shatadhanvan are 2nd-century BC Indian monarchs, Indian royalty stubs and Mauryan emperors.

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Shunga Empire

The Shunga dynasty (IAST) was the Fifth ruling dynasty of Magadha and controlled most of the northern Indian subcontinent from around 187 to 73 BCE.

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The Asiatic Society

The Asiatic Society is a Government of India organisation founded during the Company rule in India to enhance and further the cause of "Oriental research" (in this case, research into India and the surrounding regions).

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Yuga Purana

The Yuga Purana is a Sanskrit text and the last chapter of a Jyotisha (astrology) text Vriddhagargiya Samhita.

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See also

2nd-century BC Indian monarchs

2nd-century BC murdered monarchs

Indian Buddhist monarchs

Mauryan dynasty

Mauryan emperors

Murdered Indian monarchs

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brihadratha_Maurya

Also known as Brhadrata, Brhadratha, Brihadrata, Brithadratha, Bṛhadratha.