Dasharatha Maurya

Dasharatha Maurya
Devanampriya
Chakravartin
Emperor of Magadha
Reignc. 232 – c. 224 BCE
PredecessorAshoka
SuccessorSamprati
Bornc. 252 BCE
Pataliputra, Maurya Empire (Present day Bihar, India)
Diedc. 224 BCE (Aged 28)
Pataliputra, Maurya Empire (Present day Bihar, India)
DynastyMaurya
ReligionBuddhism

Dasharatha Maurya (IAST: Daśaratha) was the 4th Mauryan emperor from 232 to 224 BCE. He was a grandson of Ashoka the Great and is commonly held to have succeeded him as the Emperor of Magadha. Dasharatha presided over a declining imperium and several territories of the empire broke away from central rule during his reign. He had continued the religious and social policies of Ashoka. Dasharatha was the last Mauryan emperor to have issued imperial inscriptions—thus the last Mauryan emperor to be known from epigraphical sources.[citation needed]

Dasharatha died in 224 BCE and was succeeded by his cousin Samprati.