![]() Not at all immune to the poisonous food, the empress collapsed immediately. Unknown by the fact, one day, the Emperor shared his food with his pregnant wife Durdhara who was in the ninth month of her delivery. The Death of Durdhara – How did Queen Durdhara Die?Īccording to Jain texts, Acharaya Chanakya used to mix small doses of poison in Chandragupta Maurya’s food to increase his immunity against poison as those days the Emperor was susceptible to various threats by enemies especially in the form of poison. The son was saved by Chanakya, Chandragupta Maurya’s guru in what we may call as the first cesarian operation. ![]() The queen neither could see her son nor the son saw his mother as she died before she could give birth to her son Bindusar. Though nothing much is known about the queen, the texts confirm that she was the mother of Samrat Bindusara, the heir of the Mauryan lineage. ![]() The Mother of Chandragupta Maurya’s Only Son Bindusara
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