Ashoka in Ancient India /
In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian subcontinent, and future generations of Asians came to see him as the ideal Buddhist king. Disentangling the t...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2015.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |