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The lion capital A very big kingdom - an empire The lions that we see on our notes and coins have a long history. They were carved in stone. and placed on top of a massive stone pillar at Sarnath (about which you read in Chapter 6). Ashoka was one of the greatest rulers known to history and on his instructions Inscriptions were inscribed on pillars, as well as on rock surfaces. Before we find out what was written in these inscriptions. let us see why his kingdom was called an empire. The empire that Ashoka ruled was founded by his grandfather. Chandragupta Maurya. more than 2300 years ago. Chandragupta was supported by a wise man named Chanakya or Kautilya. Many of Chanakya's ideas were written down in a book called the Arthashas​

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The Lion Capital of Ashoka is a sculpture of four Asiatic lions standing back to back, on an elaborate base that includes other animals. A graphic representation of it was adopted as the official Emblem of India in 1950.[1] It was originally placed on the top of the Ashoka pillar at the important Buddhist site of Sarnath by the Emperor Ashoka, in about 250 BCE during his rule over the Maurya Empire.[2] The pillar, sometimes called the Aśoka Column, is still in its original location, but the Lion Capital is now in the Sarnath Museum, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Standing 2.15 metres (7 feet) high including the base, it is more elaborate than the other very similar surviving capitals of the pillars of Ashoka bearing the Edicts of Ashoka that were placed throughout India several of which feature single animals at the top; one other damaged group of four lions survives, at Sanchi.