Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.s26.6

c11.s26.6

Aśoka continued to reign for ten years after he issued the seventh Pillar edict, and the closing decade of the reign is nearly as poor in its epigraphy as the first. We have only two inscriptions, both undated but most certainly belonging to this period. One of them is the order of the king issued to his *mahāmātras* that the monk or nun who causes schism in the Sangha should be punished by expulsion, being required to wear white robes and live outside the *vihāra* in a place not fit for the members of the Sangha to live in ; this order was to be properly circulated among the monks and nuns and lay worshippers; officials and lay worshippers were to assist in carrying out this instruction by attending service on every *uposatha* day. In the other record the king gives effect to the request of his second queen, Kāluvāki, the mother of Tivala, and orders all his *mahāmātras* to register in her name all the gifts made by her, mango-groves, gardens, alms houses or anything else.