Ashoka in ancient India / Nayanjot Lahiri.

By:

Lahiri, Nayanjot [author.]

Material type: Text

TextEdition: First Harvard University Press editionDescription: xix, 385 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmISBN:

9780674057777
0674057775

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DDC classification:

934/.045092 23

LOC classification:

DS451.5 .L35 2015

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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