The series tells the story of how he faced the problems outside and inside Magadha, eventually rising to become its ruler.

Bindusara's third queen, Noor and her father, Mir Khorasan, seek to assassinate Dharma.

Chanakya and his disciple, Radhagupta take them to Pataliputra disguising Dharma as a royal physician.

Helena fixes Justin's marriage with Aghnishika the princess of Ujjain and Shushim falls in love with her sister Ahenkara.

Later it revealed that it was pre planned by Helena and her father Seleucus to kill the Mauryan family.

Shushim's marriage gets fixed with Ahnekara but due to their family rivalry he starts torturing her.

Mir Khorasan and Helena's father, Emperor Seleucus conspire to overthrow Bindusara but fail and are killed.

Dharma and her newborn son Vitashoka (Vit) accompany him to Ujjain and Ashoka vows to come back stronger and avenge Chanakya's death.

Dharma is killed by Sushim and Bindusara also dies due a cardiac arrest caused by Charumitra's blackmagic, leaving Ashoka broken.

Ashoka captures Kalinga and draws a massive amount of bloodshed, killing millions of people.

An injured Kaurvaki tells ashok that this is not the Akhand Bharat that Chanakya and Chandragupta wanted.

With the help of his children and ministers, he propagates the principles of Buddhism around the world for the welfare of mankind and earns the title of "Ashoka the Great", also fulfilling Chanakya's dream of Akhand Bharat (Greater India).

[21][22] The Times of India praised Ashok Banker's reconstruction filled historical gaps and stated that they provide "interesting fictional turns" for the show.

Abraham gave her final verdict as "the show looks promising but has a lot of scope for improvement.

I'd recommend that people watch this historical drama for Siddharth Nigam and the special effects of the show.

"[28] India.com reviewer, Prathamesh Jadhav, stated "going by the opening episode we must confess that this elaborate drama looks rather promising with its interesting tale."

He gave his final verdict as "going by what we have seen [in] it one must admit that the show looks promising with its actors, its sets and the details that have gone into making a tele-series of this nature.