Chandragupt

Chandragupt

In his book, "Jainism or the early faith of Asoka", Edward Thomas wrote: "That Chandragupta was a member of the Jaina community is taken by their writers as a matter of course and treated as a known fact, which needed neither argument nor demonstration. The documentary evidence to this effect is of comparatively early date and apparently absolved from suspicion The testimony of Megasthenes would likewise seem to imply that Chandra-Gupta submitted to the devotional teaching of the Sramanas as opposed to the doctrines of the Brahmans."

Chandragupta Maurya died by sallekhana (fasting) at Shravanabelagola in present-day Karnataka