Ashoka

Friday, June 14, 2019 10:04 AM
Ashoka:
268 BCE to 232 BCE
empire's capital was Pataliputra ,provincial capitals at Taxila and Ujjain.

destructive war against the state of Kalinga (modern Odisha),sending Buddhist monks to Sri Lankaand Central Asia,
marking several significant sites in the life of Gautama Buddha.
first successful attempts at deciphering the ancient Brahmi script were made in 1836 by Norwegian scholar Christian Lassen, who used the bilingual Greek-
Brahmi coins , it was completed by princep,
Ashoka edicts were deciphered by British archaeologist and historian James Prinsep.[5]
The Kharoshthi script, written from right to left, was also deciphered by James Prinsep
Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription: The first known inscription by Ashoka, in Greek and in Aramaic, written in the 10th year of his reign
Minor rock and pillar edict: ashoka name or religious,

majorrock and pillar edict:14 separate major Edicts, which are significantly detailed and extensive
moral and political in nature not religious proper behaviour and non violence under the general concept of "Dharma", and they also focus on the
administration
Ashoka's edicts were the first written inscriptions in India after the ancient city of Harrapa fell to ruin
Ashoka then made the first edicts in the Indian language, written in the Brahmi script,
"two and a half years after becoming a secular Buddhist"
Made by ashoka to mark enlightenment of budha in bodh gya, represents missing budha after
enlightenment
religious content: mention extensively the Buddha,sangha, budhist scripture
Nigali Sagar (nepal) inscription: mensions previous Buddhas
such as the Koṇāgamana Buddha
Bairat(rajasthan)Edict: Buddhism and Buddhist scriptures
Maski( Karnataka): Devanampiya is Ashoka was confirmed first time by an inscription discovered in 1915 by C. Beadon, a British gold-mining engineer
Gujarra ( Madhya Pradesh), uses Ashoka together with his full title: Devanampiya Piyadasi Asokaraja
Kanganahalli inscribed "raya ashoka"
The dedicatory inscriptions of the Barabar caves are also sometimes classified among the Minor Rock Edicts of Ashoka.
The expressions used by Ashoka to express the Dharma, were
• Prakrit word Dhaṃma,
• Greek word Eusebeia (in the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription and the Kandahar Greek Edict of Ashoka), and
• Aramaic word Qsyt ("Truth") (in the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription).
He was perhaps the first ruler in history to advocate conservation measures for wildlife.
(Minor Rock Edict No.3), found in front of the Bairat Temple, rajasthan talks about budhism
Rummindei Edict in Lumbini, Nepal:

first time in historical records, uses the epithet "Sakyamuni" (Sage of the Shakyas), to describe Buddha, mentions Lumbini as the birthplace of the
Buddha.
(He) made the village of Lummini free of taxes, and paying (only) an eighth share (of the produce).
Devanampriya Priyadarsin and (of those) who (are his) borderers, such as the Chodas, the Pandyas, the Satiyaputa,[65] the Kelalaputa,[66] Tamraparni,
the Yona king named Antiyoga
Major Rock Edict No.13: it is the conquest by the Dharma that the Beloved of the Gods considers as the best conquest. And this one (the conquest by the
Dharma) was won on the borders even to distance of 600 yojanas from here i.e b/w distance between the center of India and Greece,where was
The Greek king by the name of Antiokos"), beyond whom live the four other kings:
by the name of Ptolemy, the name of Antigonos, the name of Magas, the name Alexander,
likewise in the south, where live the Cholas, the Pandyas, and as far as Tamraparni(srilanka)
All the kings mentioned in Ashoka's Major Rock Edict No.13 are famous Hellenistic rulers, contemporary of Ashoka
Images of elephant engraved at dhauli(odissa)i and kalsi (uttara khand)
Lion depicts the shakhya tribe of sidhartha
Ashoka is credited for beginning of stone architechture in india , may be due to introduction of stone building by grrek alexander
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v= c9omUNMA_ lc
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v= xelY2clip0A see slide from lomas rishi cave

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v= rGwJivPZ tck
Budha was represented in human form from 1 century CE

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empire's capital was Pataliputra ,provincial capitals at Taxila and Ujjain.

Minor rock and pillar edict: ashoka name or religious,

Bairat(rajasthan)Edict: Buddhism and Buddhist scriptures

Kanganahalli inscribed "raya ashoka"

Rummindei Edict in Lumbini, Nepal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v= xelY2clip0A see slide from lomas rishi cave

Budha was represented in human form from 1 century CE

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