Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c7.56

c7.56

It was, however, left to Chandragupta's grandson, Asoka, to abolish *Mṛigayā* or hunting and other such sports of pleasure (*Abhiramani*) by royal decree [R. E. VIII.] It may be noted that, according to *Mahāvaṁsa* [V. 154], Asoka's own brother, Tissa, had indulged in hunting as his *Uparāja*, so that hunting was permitted by him as a royal pastime down to at-least 266 B.C., when Tissa left the world and became a monk.