Buddhist India c19.71

c19.71

The Chronicles thus not only confirm but also supplement Asoka’s information about the missions. And when we find that they ascribe the sending out of the missionaries, not to Asoka, but to the leaders of the Order, and that they make no mention of any such missions to the Greek kingdoms in the distant West, it is at least probable that the view they take is more accurate, in these respects, than the official proclamation.