Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c15.185

c15.185

We have also the testimony of Asoka himself to the existence of *Stūpas* before his time. For in his inscription on the pillar at Nigālī Sāgar he himself states that he had enlarged to twice its original size the *Stūpa* consecrated to the sacred memory of a previous Buddha, the Buddha Koṇāgamana (Kanakamuni).