
The Emperor is Naked: How History Forgot the Ajivikas and Remembered the Mauryas
Echoes Of India: A History Podcast
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Cangotas - A History of the Sanscrits
Ora legends tell us a bunch of stories about the founder of the dynasty, chanra buta. One version claims that when he was in hiding, he saw a woman scolding her child for trying to eat her food in the centre where it was hottest. This gave chandraguta the idea of eating up his father's empire from the peripheries. And that worked. It also appears in the stories of the early mediaeval king of wessex, alfred, when he was fighting the vikings in the british isles. So maybe this is a story that entered india with the britISH, or maybe a similar story happened to evol
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