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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| 520 | |a 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 threads of Ashoka's life from the knot of legend that surrounds it, Nayanjot Lahiri presents a vivid biography of this extraordinary Indian emperor and deepens our understanding of a legacy that extends beyond the bounds of his lifetime and dominion. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a An apocryphal early life -- Pataliputra and the prince -- Mauryan Taxila -- Affairs of the heart and state -- The end and the beginning -- The emperor's voice -- Extending the arc of communication to Afghanistan -- An expansive imperial articulation -- The message in the landscape -- Building beliefs into edifices -- An ageing emperor's interventions -- Of wifely woes and the emperor's death -- Epilogue: The emperor's afterlife -- Appendix: the inscriptions of Ashoka. | |
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