The history of the Maurya kings
The history of the Maurya kings goes back 900 years beyond Vrihadratha, to the 7th century., So far, all that is known in history is that the Maurya Empire collapsed after the assassination of Chandragupta Maurya (323 BC) and the last Maurya Emperor Brahmadratha (185 BC), from here the Maurya rule came to an end. It is said that after killing the king, Pushyamitra Shunga, the Brahmin commander of Brahdratha, became the king of Ayodhya himself and started killing Buddhists, announcing a reward of 100 gold pieces to anyone who beheaded a Buddhist monk. He got Valmiki's Ramayana written in Sanskrit by his court poet Balmik and declared himself Ram. We find these things in pages 161, 162 of Rahul Sanskritayan's book 'Volga to Ganga', this book was published for the first time in 1942, we accepted all the things written in the book as true and never thought that Pushyamitra Shunga was a Brahmi...