Supposedly he died engaging in the Jainist practice of sallekhana, starving himself and dying at Bhadrabahu Cave.
Supposedly he died engaging in the Jainist practice of sallekhana, starving himself and dying at Bhadrabahu Cave. He met his most notable advisor in Taxila, in modern-day Pakistan, who may have had a rivalry with a dynasty whose last king was Dhana. An envoy of Seleucus Nicator provides one of the best historiographies of this ruler and his administration, the Indica of Megasthenes. Upon his death, his son Bindusara succeeded him and his advisor, who produced the text Arthashastra, was retained. That advisor was known alternately as Chanakya or Kautilya, and this man had come to power by defeating the Nanda dynasty of Magadha, and was known as Sandrakottos by the Greeks. FTP, name this Indian ruler, the namesake of two rulers of a later dynasty and founder of the Mauryan Empire.
Supposedly he died engaging in the Jainist practice of sallekhana, starving himself and dying at Bhadrabahu Cave.
{Chandragupta} Maurya [accept {Sandrakottos} until mentioned, prompt thereafter]