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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> | | 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> | ||
| spouse = Chanda | | spouse = [[Chanda]] | ||
| house = [[Maurya]] | | house = [[Maurya]] | ||
| father = [[Bindusara]] | | father = [[Bindusara]] | ||
| mother = | | mother = | ||
| birth_date = {{circa|305 BCE}} | | birth_date = {{circa|305 BCE}} | ||
| death_date = {{circa|270 BCE}} Age• 35 | | death_date = {{circa|270 BCE}} Age• 35 | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Susima Maurya''' (also '''Sushima''' or '''Sushim''') was a prince of the [[Maurya Empire]] and the eldest son and | '''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. | ||
==Birth and family== | ==Birth and family== |