Idle Ages / Ages / Mauryan India
Mauryan India is age 25 on the Idle Ages ladder, set in 268 BCE. You unlock it with coins the ages below it earned. From there it produces on its own cycle, with its own upgrade costs and its own four heroes.
| Position | Age 25 of 40 |
|---|---|
| Date | 268 BCE |
| Legendary | Ashoka |
| Automation | Needs Durdhara at level 5, after which the age produces with the app closed for up to 8 hours |
| Heroes | Ashoka, Chandragupta, Chanakya, Durdhara |
Ashoka raises every age you own at once. The other three raise this one. All four carry a piece of written history that unlocks as you level them.
Legendary
Ashoka conquered until he saw the corpses of Kalinga - then renounced war entirely, the rare conqueror who stopped. He carved edicts of tolerance on rocks and pillars across India, planted shade trees, and built hospitals. His four-lion pillar is now India’s national emblem.
Raises output in every age you own, and most of all in their own. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
Chandragupta Maurya rose from obscurity to overthrow a dynasty, unify most of India for the first time, and face down Alexander’s successor - trading peace for 500 war elephants and a princess. At the height of his power he abdicated everything to live as an ascetic.
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
Chanakya, insulted by a king, swore to replace him - then found a talented boy named Chandragupta and built him an empire. His treatise on statecraft, the Arthashastra, is so pragmatically ruthless it makes Machiavelli read like a self-help book.
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Rare Manager, level 5
Durdhara, Chandragupta’s queen, is remembered through a dark legend: her husband took daily micro-doses of poison as assassination insurance, and she accidentally shared a poisoned meal. Chanakya saved her unborn son - Bindusara, the future emperor - though not her.
Raises the production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add. Levelling Durdhara to 5 is what automates Mauryan India.
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