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endposition="0:8:21:0:0" data-complex="0" style="font-family: scala-sans-offc-pro--; width: 100%;
word-spacing: 1.4px; font-size: 24px !important; line-height: 40px; font-variant-ligatures: common-
ligatures; display: block; height: 40px; margin-left: 75px; margin-right: 155px;">dragupta Maurya laid
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24px !important; line-height: 40px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; display: block; height:
40px; margin-left: 75px; margin-right: 155px;">emerged victorious. The bards told of his victory in the
words: ‘He came like light-<span data-hidespace="1" data-backspace="1" data-selectable="0" data-
singlespace="1" data-lineend="1" style="word-spacing: -12px; font-size: 24px !important; line-height:
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word-spacing: -4.3125px; font-size: 24px !important; line-height: 40px; font-variant-ligatures: common-
ligatures; display: block; height: 40px; margin-left: 75px; margin-right: 155px;">ning, to liberate us from
the Nandas.’ And yet there is no record of how the great<span data-selectable="0" data-singlespace="1"
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155px;">grandson Sushem, laid siege to Patliputra once again, intent on repeating history.<span data-
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