PATLIPUTRA KI SAMRAGYI is a historical play about the struggle of samragyi Dharma, mother of the Great Ashoka who succeeded his father, Mauryan king Bindusaar. Samragyi Dharma had played a major role in making his son Ashoka the Great Ashoka though her mention in Indian history is very minimal. She is the only person whose efforts made Ashoka sit on the throne of Mauryan empire after the death of Bindusaar. Coming from a poor brahamin family who was gifted to king Bindusaar by his own father to protect her from the evil eyes of the local Mauryan minister Shashigupt who wanted to acquire her as his possession because of her beauty. She had suffered a lot of humiliation by other queens of Bindusaar but eventually she somehow managed to make an important place for herself in Patliputra and became Samragyi of Patliputra and ruled the Mauryan empire for sometime before Ashoka sat on the thrown after the death of Bindusaar.