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जल प्रलय के बाद वैवस्वत और कुछ ऋषियों के कुल का ही धरती पर विस्तार हुआ। वैवस्वत मनु के दस पुत्र थे- इल, इक्ष्वाकु, कुशनाम, अरिष्ट, धृष्ट, नरिष्यन्त, करुष, महाबली, शर्याति और पृषध। राम का जन्म इक्ष्वाकु के कुल में हुआ था। जैन धर्म के तीर्थंकर निमि भी इसी कुल के थे। मनु के दूसरे…
HARSHA VARDHANA, KING OF THANESAR & KANAUJ c. 590-c. 647 Harsha Vardhana was born circa 590, the son of King Prabhakara Vardhana of Thanesar (in the Punjab) and Queen Yasovati “in the month Jyaistha, on the twelfth day of the dark fortnight, the Pleiads being in the ascendant, just after the twilight time. ” For…
CHANDRA GUPTA II, VIKRAMADITYA Chandra Gupta II succeeded to the throne of his father, Samudra Gupta, in about 380 A. D. Whether this was in the natural progression of things, or, as some scholars believe, that it occurred in a more dramatic fashion, is a matter of conjecture. The story goes that the prince who…
SAMUDRA GUPTA The Gupta Age began with the founding of the Gupta dynasty by Chandra Gupta I. He was not the first of the family to rule, but the first to assume the title Maharajadhiraja (Supreme King of Great Kings) and make it stick. This was around in 320 A. D. when he formed a…
KANISHKA The life of Kanishka, one of the great kings of ancient India, is documented by Chinese sources, inscriptions and coins. The date of Kanishka was the subject of a two-day seminar in 1913 which fixed it at 58 A. D. The genesis of a debate among historians may never cease. The traditional date of…
ASHOKA THE GREAT The date of Asoka’s birth is not known, and not many historians are brave enough to hazard a guess. What is known is that he was the grandson of Chandragupta who founded the Maurya dynasty in approximately 324 B. C. (not long after Alexander left India) and the son of Bindusara, the…
CHANAKYA The story of Chanakya (or Kautilya or Visnugupta), the author of the Arthashastra might more appropriately belong in the Part which contains sketches of illustrious writers, both ancient and modern. However, his life and work is so closely identified with that of Chandragupta Maurya that it may fit better here. His origin, like that…
CHANDRAGUPTA MAURYA The origin of Chandragupta is obscure, and documentation on it comes from varied sources: Greek and Roman historians, the Puranas, Pali chronicles from Sri Lanka, and Jain and Buddhist tradition. Even the Sanskrit play Mudrarakshasa contains reference to him as being vrishala (of low birth, a sudra); however, this term can also mean…
ALEXANDER THE GREAT 356-323 B. C. Alexander III, king of Macedonia, was born in 356 B. C. at Pella in Macedonia. He died thirty-three years later (13 June 323) in Persia and is known to history as Alexander the Great. As a teenager his tutor was Aristotle who imbued him with a love of Greek…
