The Mauryan Polity c11.s3.t1.3

c11.s3.t1.3

Notwithstanding these downright and absurd mythological accounts that have gathered round the name of the celebrated Mauryan monarch they are taken for granted as a source of information for the history of Aśoka, and theories hardly tenable have been floated in the ever expanding ocean of oriental history. Nothing authentic is on record concerning these legendary chronicles, and any endeavour to utilise them for historical purposes is to get ourselves stranded on the shore of imaginary history.