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|name = Durdhara<br />
|birth_place = [[Pataliputra]]{{cn|date=September 2019}}<br />
|spouse = [[Chandragupta Maurya]]<br />
|issue = [[Bindusara]] (Jain tradition)<br />
}}<br />
'''Durdhara''' was a wife of [[Chandragupta Maurya]], the founder of the 4th-century BCE [[Maurya Empire]] of ancient India, according to the 12th century CE [[Jain]] text ''[[Parishishtaparvan]]'' by [[Hemachandra]].<ref name=sastri159/> She is stated by this text to be the mother of the second Mauryan emperor, [[Bindusara]] also known as Amitraghāta.{{sfn|Mookerji|1988|p=234}}<br />
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Nothing is mentioned or known about Durdhara outside of this legend written 1,600 years after Chandragupta's era. Other sources, such as the Burmese Buddhist records do not corroborate the Jain legend.<ref name=sastri159>{{cite book|author=KAN Sastri|title=Age of the Nandas and Mauryas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YoAwor58utYC |year=1988|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-0466-1|pages=159, 165}}</ref> [[Megasthenes]], the Greek ambassador in the final years of Chandragupta's court, does not mention Durdhara nor use the name Bindusara, but refers to Chandragupta's successor as Amitrochates, while the Hindu scholar Patanjali calls him Amitraghata (meaning "vanquisher of foes").<ref>{{cite book|author=Etienne Lamotte|title=History of Indian Buddhism: From the Origins to the Saka Era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sJwEAAAAYAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Université catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste|isbn=978-90-6831-100-6|page=222}}</ref><ref name=kosmin34/> Scholars consider the Bindusara of Jain texts to be the same as Amitraghata.<ref name=kosmin34>{{cite book|author=Paul J. Kosmin|title=The Land of the Elephant Kings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9UWdAwAAQBAJ |year=2014|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-72882-0|pages=34–35, 267}}</ref><br />
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==In popular culture==<br />
* Durdhara was portrayed by Nidhi Tikko in [[Chandragupta Maurya (2011 TV series)|''Chandragupta Maurya'' (2011 TV series)]]<br />
* [[Saanvi Talwar]] played Durdhara in the 2016 historical fiction series [[ Chandra Nandini]]. <br />
* Pranali Ghoghare and Aditi Sanwal portrayed Durdhara in [[Chandragupta Maurya (2018 TV series)|''Chandragupta Maurya'' (2018 TV series)]]<br />
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==Sources==<br />
* {{citation |last=Mookerji |first=Radha Kumud |author-link=Radha Kumud Mukherjee |title=Chandragupta Maurya and His Times |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i-y6ZUheQH8C |edition=4th |year=1988 |orig-year=first published in 1966 |publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]] |isbn=81-208-0433-3 }}<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Mauryan empresses]]<br />
[[Category:4th-century BC women]]<br />
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