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Ashoka in Ancient India / Nayanjot Lahiri.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries onlyDescription: 1 online resource (408 p.) : 7 color illustrations, 38 halftones, 3 mapsContent type:
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  • 9780674915237
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 934/.045092 23
LOC classification:
  • DS451.5 .L35 2015eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Prelude -- 1. An Apocryphal Early Life -- 2. Pataliputra and the Prince -- 3. Mauryan Taxila -- 4. Affairs of the Heart and State -- 5. The End and the Beginning -- 6. The Emperor’s Voice -- 7. Extending the Arc of Communication to Afghanistan -- 8. An Expansive Imperial Articulation -- 9. The Message in the Landscape -- 10. Building Beliefs into Edifices -- 11. An Ageing Emperor’s Interventions -- 12 Of Wifely Woes and the Emperor’s Death -- Epilogue: The Emperor’s Afterlife -- Appendix: The Inscriptions of Ashoka -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In the third century BCE Ashoka ruled in South Asia and Afghanistan, and came to be seen 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 an emperor whose legacy extends far beyond the bounds of his lifetime and dominion.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Prelude -- 1. An Apocryphal Early Life -- 2. Pataliputra and the Prince -- 3. Mauryan Taxila -- 4. Affairs of the Heart and State -- 5. The End and the Beginning -- 6. The Emperor’s Voice -- 7. Extending the Arc of Communication to Afghanistan -- 8. An Expansive Imperial Articulation -- 9. The Message in the Landscape -- 10. Building Beliefs into Edifices -- 11. An Ageing Emperor’s Interventions -- 12 Of Wifely Woes and the Emperor’s Death -- Epilogue: The Emperor’s Afterlife -- Appendix: The Inscriptions of Ashoka -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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In the third century BCE Ashoka ruled in South Asia and Afghanistan, and came to be seen 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 an emperor whose legacy extends far beyond the bounds of his lifetime and dominion.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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