Introduction
Devavarman was a later Maurya ruler named in the Puranic king-lists during the empire's ongoing decline, with minimal independent historical detail surviving about his reign.
Family
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Part of a Contracting Empire
As with Shalishuka and several of his contemporaries in this late Maurya period, Devavarman's appearance in the historical record is limited to the Puranic dynastic lists, reflecting a period in which the Maurya Empire's once-vast territorial reach and administrative documentation had contracted substantially from its height under Ashoka.
This article records the Maurya Empire (c. 4th-2nd century BCE) as historical genealogy reconstructed from Ashoka's own rock and pillar edicts, Greek and Latin accounts of contact with the Mauryas, and later Buddhist, Jain and Puranic traditions composed well after the events they describe; where these traditions genuinely disagree, that disagreement is noted rather than resolved into invented certainty.