Introduction
Durdhara is named in certain later Jain sources as a wife of Chandragupta Maurya and mother of his successor, Bindusara.
Family
- Spouse: Chandragupta Maurya (married)
- Children: Bindusara
A Mother Known Mainly Through Later Tradition
As with much of the Maurya founding generation, independent contemporary evidence for Durdhara is sparse; her significance in the surviving textual record rests chiefly on her identification as Bindusara's mother, connecting the dynasty's first and second generations of rulers.
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.