What are details of the rise of Ancient Maurya?

Answer 1

Mauryas were the decendents of the ruling class of Shakya. Shakyas ruled Sravasti near Nepal and were were vassals of Kashi, both decending from Brihadbal, the Ikshavaku King of Kashi, who made a supreme sacrifice on the grounds of Kurukshetra in Mahabharat war.

Kashi King Prasenjit, a contemporary of Shakyamuni Gautam Buddha, wanted to marry a Shakya Princess. When the child by this marriage Arya Vidudhubha when went to his materanal people , the Shakyas, he was insulted by being called Dasi-Putra. It appeared that Shakyas (Shakya by name Mahan, a cousin of Buddha) had married his daughter through a dasi (slave woman) to King of Kashi. Prasenjit removed Vidhudhuba from the post of Crown prince, but restored his place when Gautam Buddha intervened.

Kashi defeated Ajatshatru, King of Magadh and became the biggest power in subcontinent. Arya Vidhudhuba invaded his maternal people and drove them endlessly. These people (the nobility of Shakyas and relatives of Shakyamuni Buddha) started calling themselves Maury and were actually driven of very very far.

Brahma reduced Mauryas to three cities. Chandragupta Maurya's father was king of Maurya-nagari, one of these three cities. His father was killed in an uprising against Maurya and his mother came to swarnabhumi (North West India) with her son.

With the support of Chanakya, a Brahmin, Chandragupt Maurya became king of Magadh and founded the Maurya empire. Sons of Ashok Maurya ruled the world till Mauryan cities were destroyed by Shiva, the destroyer of cities. In the sub-continent, Maurya empire was ended around the same time by his own general by the name Pushyamitra Sunga, the biggest enemy of sons of Shakya. Mauryas now a days rule as agriculturists.