Mention the main features of Ashoka’s enlightened policy.
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Apart from the Mughals and, many centuries later, the British, no other power controlled more Indian territory than the Mauryan empire. It also provided India with one of its most significant historical figures: Emperor Ashoka, grandson of Chandragupta Maurya.
Emperor Ashoka’s rule was characterised by flourishing art and sculpture, while his reputation as a philosopher-king was enhanced by the rock-hewn edicts he used both to instruct his people and to delineate the enormous span of his territory (they are found from Afghanistan to Nepal to Andhra Pradesh).
Ashoka’s reign also represented an undoubted historical high point for Buddhism: he embraced the religion in 260 BC, declaring it the state religion and cutting a radical swath through the spiritual and social body of Hinduism. The emperor also built thousands of stupas and monasteries across the region. Ashoka sent missions to Thailand, Greece, the Middle East and North Africa, and is revered in Sri Lanka because his son and daughter carried Buddhism to the island.
The long shadow this emperor of the 3rd century BC still casts over India is evident in the fact that the central motif of the Indian national flag is the Ashoka Chakra, a wheel with 24 spokes. Ashoka’s standard (four lions sitting back to back atop an abacus decorated with a frieze and the inscription ‘truth alone triumphs’), which topped many pillars, is also the seal of modern-day India and its national emblem.
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