It was not merely Chandragupta Maurya who made India great by his military power but his grandson Asoka played a vital role in spreading the Indian religion and culture outside by preaching the high ideals of non-violence love and universal. There is very little information about his parents his birth and early childhood lie was born in the capital city of Pataliputra. The Maurya Empire Boundless World History Extending into the kingdom of Magadha in the Indo-Gangetic Plain in the eastern side of the Indian subcontinent the empire had its capital city at Pataliputra modern Patna. . The Maurya rule was a structured administration. Chandragupta Maurya His son and grandson later pushed south adding much of southern India to their empire. Chandragupta Maurya also known to the Greeks as Sandrakottos or Sandrokottos was the founder and the first ruler of the Maurya Dynasty and is credited with establishing the first pan-Indian empire. ...