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| issue = [[Nigrodha]](Buddhist monk)<ref>{{cite book|last1=CUP Archive|editor1-last=Rapson|editor1-first=Edward James|title=The Cambridge History of India, Volume 1|date=1955|page=500}}</ref><br />
| spouse = Chanda<br />
| house = [[Maurya]]<br />
| father = [[Bindusara]]<br />
| mother = Charumitra<ref name="history">{{cite web |url= http://www.isbn.org/ISBN_history |title=ISBN History |publisher= isbn.org |date=20 April 2014 |access-date= 20 April 2014 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140420232459/http://www.isbn.org/ISBN_history |archivedate=20 April 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />
| birth_date = {{circa|305 BCE}}<br />
| death_date = {{circa|270 BCE}} Age• 35<br />
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'''Susima Maurya''' (also '''Sushima''' or '''Sushim''') was a prince of the [[Maurya Empire]] and the eldest son and [[heir-apparent]] of the second Mauryan emperor [[Bindusara]]. He was next in line for his father's throne,<ref name=upinder>{{citation |last=Singh|first=Upinder|title=A history of ancient and early medieval India : from the Stone Age to the 12th century|date=2009|publisher=Pearson Longman|location=New Delhi|isbn=9788131716779|p=331|edition=3rd impr.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GW5Gx0HSXKUC }}</ref> but was assassinated by his younger half-brother, [[Ashoka]], who eventually succeeded Bindusara as the third Mauryan emperor.<br />
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==Birth and family==<br />
Susima was the eldest son of the second Mauryan emperor Bindusara. Not only was Susima the crown prince, but also his mother was a princess as opposed to Ashoka's mother, [[Subhadrangi]], who was a Brahmin’s daughter.<ref name=Gupta09>{{cite book|last1=Gupta|first1=Subhadra Sen|title=Ashoka|date=2009|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=8184758073|chapter=Taxila and Ujjaini}}</ref><br />
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==Cultural depictions==<br />
* [[Ajith Kumar]] portrayed Sushim in the 2001 [[Bollywood]] film ''[[Aśoka (2001 film)|Aśoka]]''.<br />
* [[Ankit Arora]] portrayed the role of Sushim in the historical drama series [[Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat]].<br />
** [[Sumedh Mudgalkar]] played the young version.<br />
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