The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c23.55

c23.55

Before the year 256 B. C., when the Rock Edicts were published collectively, the royal missionaries had been dispatched to all the more or less dependent states and tribes on the frontiers of the empire, and in the wilder regions within its borders, to the independent kingdoms of Southern India, and to the Hellenistic monarchies of Syria, Egypt, Cyrene, Macedonia, and Epirus, then governed respectively by Antiochos Theos, Ptolemy Philadelphos, Magas, Antigonos Gonatas, and Alexander. The missionary organization thus embraced three continents, Asia, Africa, and Europe. The mission to Ceylon in the reign of Tissa was later in date by a few years.