Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c22.15

c22.15

Aśoka (Caṇḍāśoka, Kālāśoka, Kāmāśoka, Dharmāśoka, Piadamsana, Piyadassana, Piyadasi, Aśokavadhana, Devānāmpriya), 1, 11, 100, 108, 140, 162, 164, 165n, 167, 168, 176, 181, 182, 187, 192, 199, 202, 207, 208, 239, 241, 249, 298, 299, 301, 347, 355, 360; put to school under Pingala Nāga, 331, early life of, 208–10 and n; succession of, to the throne, 4, 170; administration under, 178, 223–226, 228–229; adoption of Buddhism by, 210–212, 303; and the Ājīvakas, 169, 296, 299,346; and the Buddhist *Sangha*, 169, 214–216, 285, 301, 302–304; and Devānāmpiya Tissa 258; and the fall of the Mauryan empire, 247; and the Nirgranthas, 299; and the southern kingdoms, 250; art during the time of, 245; building activities of, 384, 385; chronology of the reign of, 206–207; conquest of Kalinga by, 272, 309; a contemporary of Magas of Cyrene, 138; currency system during the days of, 282; date of the XIII Rock Edict of, 138; the Dhammavijaya of, 360; extent of the empire of, in the south 155–156, 203–204; 219–223; imperialism of, 390; inscriptions of, 3, 20, 171, 173, 200, 204–206; language of the inscriptions of, 312–319 341; military success of, 261; missions of, 171, 216–219, 273, 274, 318, 354; model for the inscriptions of, 359; north-western tribes under, 154; oral orders of, 226–227; patronage of Brahmanical learning by, 324; patronage of Dhamma by, 303; pilgrimage of 212–213, 221; the policy of Dharmanusasti of, 22; possible additions of, to Pātaliputra, 346; propaganda of, in the Hellenistic kingdoms, 273; race of, 141 and 142n; religious policy of, 229–234; remission of taxes by, in favour of Lumbini, 184; restoration of order by, in Taxila, 167; rule of, a great epoch, 3–4; sculpture under, 265; silence of Greek and Latin writers about, 168; sources for the reign of, 202–207 stone pillars of, 192, 265, 358, 361–69; traditions about, 214–215n; on the Pāshaṇḍas, 306; on the performance of *mangaḷas*, 306; weak successors of, 190, 243–248.