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218223054ArthaMaterial success and social prestige, one of the four goals of life0
218223055ArthashastraAncient Indian political treatise from the time of Chandragupra Maurya.1
218223056AshokaGrandson of Chandragupta Maurya, and, one of India's greatest emperors.2
218223057BrahminsHindu caste of priests.3
218223058Chandra GuptaKing of northern India (322?-298) and founder of the Gupta dynasty of Hindu kings of India that ruled until c. 185 B.C.4
218223059Chandra Gupta IIGupta ruler who ruled northern India from 374 A.D. to 415 A.D. and led India into its golden age.5
218223060Chandragupta MauryaFounder of Maurya dynasty; established first empire in Indian subcontinent; first centralized government since Harappan civilization.6
218223061KanishkaGreatest of the Kushan emperors7
218223062KautalyaChandragupta Mauryan's advisor, also wrote the Arthashastara.8
218223063KshatriyasSecond level of the varnas in the Hindu caste system; warriors.9
218223064KushanNomadic warriors who took power of Northern India, regulated the silk road.10
218223065Samudra GuptaSon of first Chandra Gupta became king in 335 A.D. expanded the empire with 40 years of war and conquest.11
218223066ShudrasLaborers, craftworkers and servants in the Hindu caste system.12
218223067VaishyasHindu caste of cultivators, artisans, and merchants.13
218223068Arjuna(Hindu mythology) the warrior prince in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature of being and of God and how humans can come to know God.14
218223069BactriaThe ancient region stretching from the Hindu Kush mountain range to the ancient Ganhara region of the Indian subcontinent.15
218223070KrishnaIn Hinduism, the seventh incarnation of the god Vishnu.16
218223071PataliputraThe capital city of the Gupta Empire and the Mauryan Empire.17
218223072Bhagavad GitaThe most important work of Indian sacred literature, a dialogue between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit.18
218223073Rock and Pillar EdictsA series of edicts on...rocks and pillars that reminded Mauryans to live righteous lives according to Buddhist principles, A series of edicts on...rocks and pillars that reminded Mauryans to live righteous lives according to Buddhist principles19

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