The Great Eastern Empire - A History of the World

From Alternative History

A brief time line of the Great Eastern Empire:

BP = Before Present, PD = Present Day

• 3000 years (BP): Gurudev Chaviksa is born in a Middle Caste family on the banks of the River Ganga in the town of Benaras (Present Day Capital of the Central Province of the Chaviksa Empire - aka Megapolis001).
• 2984 years(BP): Gurudev Chaviksa becomes a master of the Holy Texts. For seven years, he has been secretly listening to their recitation in the ashrama in the vicinity of his home.

• 2983 years(BP):

1. Mahayagnya (Holy Ceremony) held at the Benaras ashrama to decide who will be the next priest at the Vishvanath Temple (PD Sanctum Sanctorum of the Chaviksa Mahamanndir). On hearing that the 24 year old High Caste children cannot satisfactorily recite the required Holy Verses, young Chaviksa barges into the main hall of the ashrama. For eleven days without food or water, Chaviksa recites all the Holy Verses.
2. Priests divided over what to do with the Middle Caste Scholar Chaviksa. A small sect who believe Chaviksa to be an Avatar of the lord go into hiding with Chaviksa. The other priests, afraid of losing their total hold over the populace because of the caste - defying child start destroying all traces of Chaviksa.
3. Chaviksa's Parents and younger sister imprisoned.
4. Chaviksa's Parents killed.

• 2982 years(BP):

1. Chaviksa's sister abducted on the behest of the High Priest
2. Chaviksa, in hiding meets for the first time, his to be deputy Cholamand