Ashoka Vardhana, the third Mauryan emperor (the first great unified empire of India), has gone down in history for converting to Buddhism after witnessing the massacres resulting from the campaign he ...

Patrick Olivelle’s new book, Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King, on the Mauryan emperor views him purely as a historical figure, without the myths – using only the ancient emperor’s own ...

One of greatest emperors, not for his military might, but for hearts & minds he conquered Discovered in 1915 by a British Engineer, Ashoka’s Maski edict was the first inscription with the Mauryan ...

"In the history of the world there have been thousands of kings and emperors who called themselves 'their highnesses', 'their majesties', 'their exalted majesties' and so on," HG Wells wrote in The ...

Why should an outstanding vocalist converse with a historian about a ruler from the third century BCE in 2022? The conversation took place in Nandiya Gardens at the ITC Maurya hotel on April 19 in the ...

PATNA: Padma Shree awardee Daya Prakash Sinha has landed in trouble following an FIR (First Information Report) lodged against him for making a controversial statement against Mauryan emperor Ashoka ...

THE MAURYAN Emperor Ashoka evolved his own code of conduct, which he called ?dhamma? for the masses, said former Lucknow University Faculty of Arts dean Prof KK Thapalyal. THE MAURYAN Emperor Ashoka ...

Apparently eyeing the Other Backward Class (OBC) votes, the BJP in Bihar on Friday celebrated 2327 th birth anniversary of Mauryan emperor Ashoka, who is said to have ruled most part of the Indian ...

PATNA: Padma awardee Daya Prakash Sinha's controversial statement against Mauryan emperor Ashoka the great, spilled over into a verbal duel between the two ruling alliance partners of the NDA--the ...