The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c11.23
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c11.23
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(3) One form of the Khotan tradition places Dharma Asoka 250 years after the Nirvāna of Buddha, and makes him contemporary with the Chinese emperor, She-hwang-ti, the builder of the Great Wall, who came to the throne in 246 B. C., became ‘universal emperor’ in 221, and reigned until 210 (Sarat Chandra Dās, *J. A. S. B.*, part 1, 1886, pp. 193–203; Tchang, *Synchronismes chinois*).¹