These include cotton Jacquard, damask Jacquard, silk Jacquard and faux-silk Jacquard. Some styles of Jacquard fabrics are made with tone-on-tone silk and cotton, while others are made with just a single fabric.
India unified as a single entity for the first time under the rule of the great emperor Chandragupta Maurya (340 BC â 298 BC). Before his rule most of the south Asia was divided into small states whereas Gangetic Plains were ruled by the Nanda Dynasty.
Ghatotkacha (reigned c. 280â319 CE), had a son named Chandragupta (reigned c. 320â335 CE) (not to be confused with Chandragupta Maurya (322â298 BCE), founder of the Mauryan Empire .) In a breakthrough deal, Chandragupta was married to Kumaradevi, a Lichchhavi princessâthe main power in Magadha.fter the collapse of the Gupta Empire in the 6th century, India was again ruled by numerous regional kingdoms. A minor line of the Gupta clan continued to rule Magadha after the disintegration of the empire.