A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s1.2

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Chandragupta was succeeded by his son Bindusāra, who, in or about 273 B. C., transmitted the imperial sceptre to his son, Asoka, the third and most renowned sovereign of the Maurya dynasty. For forty-one years (273–232 B. C.) Asoka ruled his immense empire with great power and might, maintaining friendly relations with his neighbours, the Tamil states of the extreme south, and also with the island kingdom of Ceylon, and the more remote Greek monarchies of Macedonia, Epirus, Western Asia, Egypt, and Cyrene.