Nayanjot Lahiri creator Nayanjot Lahiri text Kings and rulers-Aśoka, King of Magadha, active 259 B.C xxu Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 2015 monographic eng

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xix, 385 pages ;23 cm. 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. An apocryphal early life -- Pataliputra and the prince -- Mauryan Taxila -- Affairs of the heart and state -- The end and the beginning -- The emperor's voice -- Extending the arc of communication to Afghanistan -- An expansive imperial articulation -- The message in the landscape -- Building beliefs into edifices -- An ageing emperor's interventions -- Of wifely woes and the emperor's death -- Epilogue: The emperor's afterlife -- /Nayanjot Lahiri History 934.045092 LAH 9788178244914 Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)LTD. ;7/22,Anasri Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002 180828 20190419160526.0