He had a great strategist as Chanakya and within no time they had raised an army of their own.Within a year after Alexander the Great had abandoned his conquest of India in the year 325 B.C., the Greek ruled territory in the northwest region was conquered by Chandragupta.Buddhist sources describe him to be a Kshatriya. The oldest sources are the Greek sources that say that he did not have a warrior lineage whereas the Hindu sources say that he was of humble birth.
The actual story of his origin is unknown and many stories have been told about his birth.He was the founder of the Mauryan Empire.The most famous rulers of the Mauryan Empire were