INDIAN HISTORY

HISTORY

CHANDRAGUPTA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Monk whom Chandragupta Maurya accompanied to South India was ____
A
Asvaghosa
B
Bhadrabahu
C
Vasumitra
D
Upagupta
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Bhadrabahu determined the famine would make it tougher for monks to endure and travelled with a group of 12, 000 followers to South India, taking with him Chandragupta, transformed Digambara monk.

Detailed explanation-2: -During 322–298 BCE, Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan Empire, accompanied by Bhadrabahu, the eighth master after the passing away of Mahavira, and thousands of scholar ascetics, migrated to Shravanabelagola in Karnataka.

Detailed explanation-3: -He led a group of Jain monks to south India, where Chandragupta Maurya joined him as a monk after abdicating his kingdom to his son Bindusara. Together, states a Digambara legend, Chandragupta and Bhadrabahu moved to Shravanabelagola, in present-day south Karnataka.

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Detailed explanation-5: -According to some sources, Chandragupta adopted Jainism in 293 B.C. and became a Jain monk. a battle. His widowed mother escaped to a city called Purushapur or Pataliputra where she gave birth to a son, who came to be known as Chandragupta. However, in a helpless state his mother left him and went away.

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