The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c23.94

c23.94

Tīvara, the son mentioned in the Queen's Edict, is not heard of again, and may have predeceased his father. Dasaratha, a grandson of Asoka, certainly was a reality, being known from brief dedicatory inscriptions on the walls of cave-dwellings at the Nāgārjuni Hills, which he bestowed upon the Ājīvikas, as his grandfather had done in the neighbouring Barābar Hills. The script, language, and style of Dasaratha's records prove that his date was very close to that of Asoka, whom probably he directly succeeded, at least in the eastern provinces. Assuming this to be the fact, the accession of Dasaratha may be dated in 232 B. C. His reign appears to have been short, and is allotted (under other names) eight years in two of the Purāṇas.