Answer: Bindusara
Notes: Bindusara is known as the “conqueror of Land between the two seas”. Bindusara extended his empire to the southern part of India. He brought sixteen states under the Mauryan Empire and thus conquered almost the entire Indian peninsula. He is said to have conquered the ‘land between the two seas’ - the peninsular region between the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. Bindusara didn’t conquer the friendly Tamil kingdoms of the Cholas, ruled by King Ilamcetcenni, the Pandyas, and Cheras. Apart from these southern states, Kalinga (modern Odisha) was the only kingdom in India that didn’t form part of Bindusara’s empire.
