Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.s21.32

c11.s21.32

Fleet drew attention to the references to the Tishya day in the Aśoka inscriptions ; and assuming that Aśoka held his *abhisheka* on such a day, and taking October 13, 483 B.C. as the day of Buddha’s nirvāṇa, he calculated that April 25, 264 B.C. was the day of Aśoka’s *abhisheka*³. But such precise calculations rest on too many unproved assumptions and will by no means command easy assent.