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Emperor Ashoka: The Messenger of Love and Peace
Emperor Ashoka: The Messenger of Love and Peace
Carmen Dragonetti
Undoubtedly Emperor Ashoka is one of the most important rulers not only in Indian history but in that of the entire world's history. During a span of forty years Alexander the Great. We know of Ashoka's history from the Buddhist chronicles and in particular from a magnificent collection of inscriptions that has come to us from him.
Some Historical Dates
In May of 327 B.C. Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, began his expedition to India. In February of 326 B.C. he crossed the Indus River and some months later defeated Poros, the most important rāja (king) of the Punjab. With this victory Alexander the Great founded Greek hegemony in the Punjab, governing the country through rājas who had submitted to his authority. In October of 326 B.C.
Alexander began his return to Greece, dying in June of 323 B.C. Upon his death his generals quarreled, and divided their master's empire among themselves. Seleucus was one of these generals.
In 322 B.C., or perhaps two or three years before, Chandragupta founded the Maurya empire in Magadha (now Bihar) in the northeast of India. When Alexander died (or perhaps when he left India), the areas occupied by Greek
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Ashoka in Ancient India 9780674057777
Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Maps
Acknowledgements
Prelude
Chapter 1. An Apocryphal Early Life
Chapter 2. Pataliputra and the Prince
Chapter 3. Mauryan Taxila
Chapter 4. Affairs of the Heart and State
Chapter 5. The End and the Beginning
Chapter 6. The Emperor’s Voice
Chapter 7. Extending the Arc of Communication to Afghanistan
Chapter 8. An Expansive Imperial Articulation
Chapter 9. The Message in the Landscape
Chapter 10. Building Beliefs into Edifices
Chapter 11. An Ageing Emperor’s Interventions
Chapter 12. Of Wifely Woes and the Emperor’s Death
Epilogue: The Emperor’s Afterlife
Appendix: The Inscriptions of Ashoka
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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AshokA in Ancient India
AshokA in Ancient India nayanjot lahiri
harvard university press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2015
Copyright © Nayanjot Lahiri, 2015 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
First published in India by Permanent Black, 2015 First Harvard University Press edition, 2015 First Printing Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lahiri, Nayanjot. Ashoka in ancient India / Nayanjot Lahiri. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-05