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Ashoka Vardhana, the third Mauryan emperor (the first great unified empire of India), has gone down in history for converting to Buddhism after witnessing the massacres resulting from the campaign he ...

After his death around 238 B.C., Ashoka’s merciful style of gov­ernance waned along with the Mauryan Empire itself. His reign slipped into the realm of legend, until archaeologists translated ...

Ashoka the Great, the Mauryan emperor who ruled most of the Indian subcontinent in the 3rd century BCE, is widely regarded as ...

Patrick Olivelle’s new book, Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King, on the Mauryan emperor views him purely as a historical figure, without the myths – using only the ancient emperor’s own ...

Maurya Empire. Posted in Antiquity The Edicts of Ashoka, the Maurya Emperor who Renounced Violence in Horror at his Military Campaigns. by Jorge Álvarez February 20, 2024 February 20, 2024. Ashoka ...

The entire nine Mauryan rulers, ending in 185 BC lived by the principles of Ashoka. It took the barbaric Alchon Huns in 370 AD to eliminate all Buddhist from Lahore, and that at the instigation of ...

Not just Ashoka, Chandragupta Maurya hasn’t been given his due like many other great kings, queens, commoners and artists of the past eras. There are so many other stories of common people and ...