History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v1.c10.2

v1.c10.2

IT may create a feeling of disappointment in some minds when they are told that there is no stone architecture in India older than two and a half centuries before the Christian Era; but, on the other hand, it adds immensely to the clearness of what follows to be able to assert that India owes the introduction of the use of stone for architectural purposes, as he does that of Buddhism as a state religion, to the great Asoka, who reigned from about B.C. 265 to 228.