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The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia with its power ... Excavations have unearthed the remains of the palace ...
The Pataliputra capital is a monumental rectangular capital with volutes and Classical Greek designs, that was discovered in the palace ruins of the ancient Mauryan Empire capital city of Pataliputra (modern Patna, northeastern India). It is dated to the 3rd century BCE.
Mauryan remains of a wooden palisade discovered at the Bulandi Bagh site of Pataliputra Fa-Hien at the ruins of Ashoka's palace in Pataliputra in the 4th century CE (artist impression) Strabo in his Geographia adds that the city walls were made of wood. These are thought to be the wooden palisades identified during the excavation of Patna. [31]
Chandragupta Maurya [d] (reigned c. 320 BCE [e] – c. 298 BCE) [f] was the founder of the Maurya Empire, based in Magadha (present-day Bihar). His rise to power began in the period of unrest and local warfare that arose after Alexander the Great 's Indian campaign and early death in 323 BCE, although the exact chronology and sequence of events ...
Ashoka's Hell was, according to legend, an elaborate torture chamber disguised as a beautiful palace full of amenities such as exclusive baths and decorated with flowers, fruit trees and ornaments. It was built by Emperor Ashoka (304–232 BCE) in Pataliputra (modern-day Patna , India), the capital city of the Maurya Empire .
The pillared hall seems to have been located about 350 meters south of the wooden palisades of the city of Pataliputra (discovered in the area of Bulandi Bagh), and was standing by the banks of the former Son river, and therefore cannot have been the Mauryan palace, but probably only "a pleasure hall outside the city walls". [8]
Additionally, excavations at Bulandi Bagh revealed wooden palisades believed to have constituted the protective walls of ancient Pataliputra. It is widely speculated that Bulandi Bagh was once a part of the royal palace complex of the Maurya dynasty in Pataliputra. [1]
The empire was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 322 BCE and lasted until 185 BCE. The Mauryan Empire was the first pan-Indian empire. At its height, the empire covered most of the Indian subcontinent. [3] The Mauryan Emperor was the monarchical head of state and wielded absolute rule over the empire.