Chronicles of Ancient India

Ancient Inscriptions give authentic evidence of a period, around 700-800 BC, when a great civilization flourished in the most of the parts of South Asia called Bharat ie Ancient India. Aryans, (the nobles) composed these reminiscent hymns to nature and celebrated life energetically. They referred to themselves as the ‘nobles’. The 6th Century B.C. was the period of Magadh Kingdom. Chandragupta Maurya ousted the oppressive ruler of Magadh to find his own dynasty that existed from 322 – 298 B.C. The most famous Maurya King Ashoka the Great, ruled from 273 – 232 B.C over a large kingdom stretching from Kashmir and Peshawar in the North and Northwest to Mysore in the South and Orissa in the East. He after witnessing massive bloodshed at the battle field of Kalinga (269 B.C.) in Orissa, dedicated himself to Buddhism. In the subsequent centuries, after the Ashoka empire disintegrated and India suffered a series of invasions, and often fell under the spell of foreign rulers – Indo Bactrians, the Sakas and others. After the next 400 years of instability the Guptas established their kingdom.

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