The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c21.38

c21.38

In or about the year 243 B. C., when he had been on the throne for some thirty years, Asoka began the composition of a fresh series of documents, the Seven Pillar Edicts, which reiterated his earlier teaching and conclude with a formal retrospect of the measures adopted by him in furtherance of the ethical reforms which he had at heart. They also include a concise code of regulations concerning the slaughter and mutilation of animals, practices which he regarded with abhorrence.