A History of Agriculture in India v1.c32.12

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Sanchi provides us with a glimpse of arboriculture in the reign of Asoka. Sanchi is about eight kilometres from Bhilsa, the modern successor of the ancient town of Vidisa. Vidisa was the junction of two great trade routes, one of which ran west to east from the busy sea-ports of the western coast of India through Ujjain, Kausambi and Benares to Pataliputra and the other south to north-west from Pratisthana, the Andhra capital, to Sravasti. Vidisa was the home of Devi, the wife of Asoka. Sanchi became an important Buddhist centre in the third century B.C. The famous stupa in which the remains of the Buddha were enshrined was built by Asoka in 225 B.C.