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Ashoka the GreatIndia's Mauryan Emperor
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Ashoka's Pillar in Bihar, India. G. Nimatallah / De Agostini Picture Library
by Kallie Szczepanski
Updated July 16, 2017
Ashoka — the Emporer of India's Maurya Dynasty from 268 to 232 B.C. — is remembered as one of early history's most brutally violent rulers of the region, though also later turned to a life of Buddhist nonviolence after witnessing the devastation of his attack against the Kalinga region.
The story of this conversion and many others about a great emperor called Ashoka appear in ancient Sanskrit literature, including the "Ashokavadana," "Divyavandana," and "Mahvamsa." For many years, westerners considered them to be mere legend.
They did not connect the ruler Ashoka, grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, to the stone pillars inscribed with edicts that are sprinkled all around the edges of India.
In 1915, however, archaeologists found a pillar inscription that identified the author of those edicts, the well-known Mauryan emperor Piyadasi or Priyadarsi — meaning "Beloved of the Gods" — by his given name: Ashoka. The virtuous emperor from the ancient texts, and the law-giver who ordered the installation of pillars inscribed with merciful laws all over the subcontinent — they were the same man.
Ashoka the GreatIndia's Mauryan Emperor
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Ashoka's Pillar in Bihar, India. G. Nimatallah / De Agostini Picture Library
by Kallie Szczepanski
Updated July 16, 2017
Ashoka — the Emporer of India's Maurya Dynasty from 268 to 232 B.C. — is remembered as one of early history's most brutally violent rulers of the region, though also later turned to a life of Buddhist nonviolence after witnessing the devastation of his attack against the Kalinga region.
The story of this conversion and many others about a great emperor called Ashoka appear in ancient Sanskrit literature, including the "Ashokavadana," "Divyavandana," and "Mahvamsa." For many years, westerners considered them to be mere legend.
They did not connect the ruler Ashoka, grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, to the stone pillars inscribed with edicts that are sprinkled all around the edges of India.
In 1915, however, archaeologists found a pillar inscription that identified the author of those edicts, the well-known Mauryan emperor Piyadasi or Priyadarsi — meaning "Beloved of the Gods" — by his given name: Ashoka. The virtuous emperor from the ancient texts, and the law-giver who ordered the installation of pillars inscribed with merciful laws all over the subcontinent — they were the same man.
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