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The Carmichael Lectures 1923 Aśoka

1925

And the -question must arise : which nakshatra is of the king and which of the country ? It is worthy of note that the Tishya nakshatra has been mentioned also in the two Separate Edicts of Dhauli and Jaugacia. [...] In the same Pillar Edict and in conti- nuation of the same subject, namely, the distri- bution of the charities of the Royal Household, Adoka speaks of his own sons and other devt- kumitras. [...] All the instances of the samaja described in the Brahmanical and the Buddhist literature show that they were intended to feast the palate or the eye and the ear of the people. [...] The earliestA§OKA AND HIS EARLY L1PE 23 event of his reign that we find referred to in inscriptions is his conquest of Kaliiiga, which roughly corresponds to the tract of land on the coast of the Bay of Bengal between the Vaitarani. [...] The territories of the three of these four names have been identified on the data supplied by Ptolemy and the author of the Periplus.
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Pages
365
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi D. R. Bhandarkar view
Preface
vii-xviii D. R. Bhandarkar view
Chapter I Aśoka and His Early Life
1-25 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Chapter II Aśoka’s Empire and Administration
26-71 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Chapter III Aśoka as a Buddhist
72-99 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Chapter IV Aśoka’s Dhamma
100-132 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Chapter V Aśoka as a Missionary
133-167 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Chapter VI Social and Religious Life from Aśokan Monuments
168-219 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Chapter VII Aśoka’s Place in History
220-248 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Chapter VIII Asoka Inscriptions
249-272 D. R. Bhandarkar view
The Fourteen Rock Edicts
273-304 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Pillar Edicts
305-322 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Minor Rook Inscirpitons
323-331 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Minor Pillar Inscirpitons
332-337 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Index
338-346 D. R. Bhandarkar view
Backmatter
i-i D. R. Bhandarkar view

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