Bindusara was the son of Chandragupta, the family's founder, and the father of Ashoka, his dynasty's most famous ruler. Bindusara's life was not as well documented as the lifetimes of these two emperors, and the most of what we know about him comes from legends written hundreds of years ago and remains.

Bindusara strengthened his father's influence by consolidating it. Taranatha, a 16th-century Tibetan Buddhist text, credited his reign with significant territorial conquests in southern India, however historians are suspicious of this claim.

BINDUSARA 

The Mauryan Empire's founder, Chandragupta, had a son named Bindusara. Several writings, including the Puranas and Mahavamsa, attest to this.   In the Dipavamsa, however, Bindusara is referred to as Emperor Shushunaga's son.   According to Ashokavadana, Bindusara was both Nanda's kid and a 10th-generation descendant of Bimbisara. It, like Dipavamsa, omits Chandragupta's name entirely. A similar genealogy may be found in the metrical form of Ashokavadana, with some slight variations. 

Because Chandragupta had marriage relationships with both Seleucids, Bindusara's mother might have been Greek or Macedonian. There is, however, no evidence of this.   Bindusara's mother's name is Durdhara, according to Hemachandra's Parishishta-Parvan from the 12th century.

Mythology surrounding Bindusara's name exists in both Buddhist and Jain texts. According to both tales, Chandragupta's minister Chanakya would occasionally add small amounts of poison to the emperor's meal to increase his resistance to poison operations. Chandragupta exchanged meals with her pregnant wife one day, completely unaware of the risk. 

According to Buddhist legends, the princess was only 7 days away from giving birth. The queen ate the poisoned portion right as Chanakya came. He decided to save another unborn kid after realizing she was going to die. To remove the fetus, he cut off the queen's crown and chopped it into her stomach with a sword.

Sushima, Ashoka, and Vigatashoka are Bindusara's three offspring as mentioned in the prose form of Ashokavadana. Subhadrangi, the daughter of a Brahman from Champa City, was the mother of Ashoka and Vigatashoka. When she was born, an astrologer predicted that one of mother's sons would become a king and another a pious man. 

Her father took her to Bindusara's kingdom in Pataliputra when she was older. Bindusara's women, who envied her beauty, trained the royal barber. She once expressed her desire to be a queen after the emperor admired her hairstyle skills. Bindusara was initially concerned about her low social status, but after discovering her Brahmin ancestry, he promoted her to the position of chief queen.

Conclusion

The Maurya Empire was a South Asian Iron Age historical empire headquartered in Magadha, founded approximately 322 BCE by Chandragupta Maurya and lasting until 185 BCE in a loosely organized manner. The Maurya Empire was founded on the conquest of India's crucial plain, with Pataliputra serving as its capital city (modern Patna). 

Outside of this imperial core, the empire's geographical spread was constrained by the loyalty of top generals who ruled the armed cities dotting the countryside. Except for the deep south, the empire briefly dominated the major metropolitan centers or arteries of something resembling the Indian subcontinent during Ashoka's reign (ca. 268-232 BCE).