I think chandraprakAsha dvivedin was as erudite a serial maker as we have had for this genre (caveat I& #39;ve only watched these till 1990s). Only educated people might have gotten full depth of his presentations. He was trying truly recreate the nanda-mauryan age accurately. https://twitter.com/vvaayu/status/1245911692103450624">https://twitter.com/vvaayu/st...

Unfortunately, I appeared that he was not given a free hand to telecast the whole thing or he ran out of funds to bring it to completion with same finesse with which he started. A few points that struck me:I& #39;ll only stick to early episode. For I did not get to see all: The use of

the yama and varuNa mantra from AV/RV to hint the death of the charioteer of nanda. 2) The introduction of people diverse vaidika shAkhA-s. e.g. scene when shaktAr goes to pay chaNDala for funeral the use of the taittirIya funerary mantra-s. shukla-yajurvedic chamakaprashna in

another scene; 3) The attempt to depict people riding without conventional saddles as in the mauryan age. 4) The attempt to make the Hindi sound more like a early apabhraMsha or prAkR^ita; 5) The precocious viShNugupta as vehicle to discuss arthashAstra sUtra-s. A fairly accurate

depiction of the Macedonian barbarian Alexander& #39;s battle tactics and interactions.There was also an attempt to bring in a sentiment of nationalism against invader & rebellion against internal adharmika tyrants which was viShNugupta& #39;s primary role. etc etc