Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.s28.6

c11.s28.6

This account of the missions given by the Ceylonese chronicles may be accepted as evidence that in the later years of his reign Aśoka continued to strive for the spread of Buddhism with the same zeal as before. The action taken earlier in the reign had resulted in the establishment of a net-work of missions within the empire and outside. In the Thirteenth Rock Edict Aśoka forswears war as a means of conquest, declares that the true conquest is conquest of Dhamma (Dhammavijaya) and then records :