Ashoka, the Glossary
Ashoka, also known as Asoka or Aśoka (– 232 BCE), and popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was Emperor of Magadha in the Indian subcontinent from until 232 BCE, and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynasty.[1]
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303 relations: Abacus (architecture), ABP News, Achaemenid Empire, Adnan Khan, Afghanistan, Agyeya, Aham Sharma, Ahraura, Ajatashatru, Alexander Cunningham, Alexander II of Epirus, Alexander of Corinth, Allahabad Pillar, Amar Chitra Katha, Ananda W. P. Guruge, Antigonus II Gonatas, Antiochus II Theos, Anupam Kher, Anuradhapura Kingdom, Appamāda, Appian, Aramaic, Aramaic inscription of Laghman, Aramaic inscription of Taxila, Archaeological Survey of India, Archaeology, Arched-hill symbol, Arthashastra, Asandhimitra, Ashok Banker, Ashok Kumar (film), Ashoka (Gonandiya), Ashoka Chakra, Ashoka the Great (book), Ashoka's Hell, Ashoka's policy of Dhamma, Ashokan Edicts in Delhi, Ashokavadana, Asoka (2001 film), Aurel Stein, Étienne Lamotte, Ājīvika, Ānanda, Bairat Temple, Bamboo, Bangladesh, Barabar Caves, Basileus, Bharatvarsh (TV series), Bharhut, ... Expand index (253 more) »
- 3rd-century BC Indian monarchs
- 3rd-century Buddhism
- Ancient India
- Ancient history of Afghanistan
- Ancient history of Pakistan
- History of Buddhism in India
- Indian Buddhist missionaries
- Indian Buddhist monarchs
- Indian pacifists
- Indian warriors
- Mauryan emperors
Abacus (architecture)
In architecture, an abacus (from the Ancient Greek,; or French,;: abacuses or abaci) is a flat slab forming the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, above the bell.
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ABP News
ABP News is an Indian Hindi-language free-to-air television news channel owned by ABP Group.
Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
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Adnan Khan
Adnan Khan (born 24 December 1988) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi Films, Hindi Television and Web series.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
Agyeya
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan (7 March 1911 – 4 April 1987), popularly known by his pen name Agyeya (also transliterated Ajneya, meaning 'the unknowable'), was an Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator and revolutionary in Hindi language.
Aham Sharma
Aham Sharma (born 22 July 1989) is an Indian actor from Salimpur, Bihar, India.
Ahraura
Ahraura is a town and a municipal board in Mirzapur district (distance 60 kilometres by road) in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Ajatashatru
Ajatasattu (Pāli) or Ajatashatru (Sanskrit) in Buddhist tradition, or Kunika and Kuniya in the Jain histories, (reigned c. 492 to 460 BCE, or c. 405 to 373 BCE) was one of the most important kings of the Haryanka dynasty of Magadha in East India. Ashoka and Ajatashatru are Indian Buddhist monarchs and Indian Buddhists.
Alexander Cunningham
Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham (23 January 1814 – 28 November 1893) was a British Army engineer with the Bengal Sappers who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India.
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Alexander II of Epirus
Alexander II (Greek: Άλέξανδρος) was a king of Epirus, and the son of Pyrrhus and Lanassa, the daughter of the Sicilian tyrant Agathocles.
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Alexander of Corinth
Alexander (Ἀλέξανδρος) (died 247 BC) was a Macedonian governor and tyrant of Corinth.
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Allahabad Pillar
The Allahabad pillar is a stambha, containing one of the pillar edicts of Ashoka, erected by Ashoka, emperor of the Maurya dynasty, who reigned in the 3rd century BCE.
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Amar Chitra Katha
Amar Chitra Katha (ACK Comics) is an Indian comic book publisher, based in Mumbai, India.
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Ananda W. P. Guruge
Ananda Wahihana Palliya Guruge (28 December 1928 – 6 August 2014), known as Ananda W. P. Guruge, was a Sri Lankan diplomat, Buddhist scholar and writer.
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Antigonus II Gonatas
Antigonus II Gonatas (Ἀντίγονος Γονατᾶς,; – 239 BC) was a Macedonian ruler who solidified the position of the Antigonid dynasty in Macedon after a long period defined by anarchy and chaos and acquired fame for his victory over the Gauls who had invaded the Balkans.
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Antiochus II Theos
Antiochus II Theos (Ἀντίοχος Θεός,; 286 – July 246 BC) was a Greek king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire who reigned from 261 to 246 BC.
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Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher (born 7 March 1955) is an Indian actor, director and producer who works primarily in Hindi-language films.
Anuradhapura Kingdom
Anuradhapura Kingdom (Sinhala: අනුරාධපුර රාජධානිය, translit: Anurādhapura Rājadhāniya, Tamil: அனுராதபுர இராச்சியம்), named for its capital city, was the second established kingdom in ancient Sri Lanka related to the Sinhalese people.
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Appamāda
Apramāda (Sanskrit; Pali: appamāda; Tibetan Wylie: bag yod pa) is a Buddhist term translated as "conscientious" or "concern".
Appian
Appian of Alexandria (Appianòs Alexandreús; Appianus Alexandrinus) was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who prospered during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius.
Aramaic
Aramaic (ˀərāmiṯ; arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.
Aramaic inscription of Laghman
The Aramaic inscription of Laghman, also called the Laghman I inscription to differentiate from the Laghman II inscription discovered later, is an inscription on a slab of natural rock in the area of Laghmân, Afghanistan, written in Aramaic by the Indian emperor Ashoka about 260 BCE, and often categorized as one of the Minor Rock Edicts of Ashoka.
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Aramaic inscription of Taxila
The Aramaic inscription of Taxila is an inscription on a piece of marble, originally belonging to an octagonal column, discovered by Sir John Marshall in 1915 at Taxila, British India.
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Archaeological Survey of India
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is an Indian government agency that is responsible for archaeological research and the conservation and preservation of cultural historical monuments in the country.
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Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
Arched-hill symbol
The Arched-hill symbol is a symbol on ancient Coinage of India.
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Arthashastra
The Arthashastra (अर्थशास्त्रम्) is an Ancient Indian Sanskrit treatise on statecraft, political science, economic policy and military strategy.
Asandhimitra
Asandhamitra (304 BCE – 240 BCE) was an empress and 1st chief consort of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka. Ashoka and Asandhimitra are Indian Buddhists.
Ashok Banker
Ashok Kumar Banker (born 7 February 1964 in Mumbai, India) is an author and screenwriter.
Ashok Kumar (film)
Ashok Kumar is a 1941 Indian Tamil-language historical drama film directed by Raja Chandrasekhar.
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Ashoka (Gonandiya)
King Ashoka, of the Gonandiya dynasty, was a king of the region of Kashmir according to Kalhana, the 12th century CE historian who wrote the Rajatarangini.
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Ashoka Chakra
The Ashoka Chakra (Transl: Ashoka's wheel) is an Indian symbol which is a depiction of the Dharmachakra.
Ashoka the Great (book)
Ashoka The Great is a fictional biography of the emperor Ashoka.
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Ashoka's Hell
Ashoka's Hell was, according to legend, an elaborate torture chamber disguised as a beautiful palace full of amenities such as exclusive baths and decorated with flowers, fruit trees and ornaments.
Ashoka's policy of Dhamma
Dhamma (translit; translit) is a set of edicts that formed a policy of the 3rd Mauryan emperor Ashoka the Great, who succeeded to the Mauryan throne in modern-day India around 269 B.C.E. Ashoka is considered one of the greatest kings of ancient India for his policies of public welfare.
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Ashokan Edicts in Delhi
The Ashokan edicts in Delhi are a series of edicts on the teachings of Buddha created by Ashoka, the Mauryan Emperor who ruled in the Indian subcontinent during the 3rd century BC.
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Ashokavadana
The Ashokavadana (अशोकावदान;; "Narrative of Ashoka") is an Indian Sanskrit-language text that describes the birth and reign of the third Mauryan Emperor Ashoka.
Asoka (2001 film)
As̅oka is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language epic historical drama film directed and co-written by Santosh Sivan.
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Aurel Stein
Sir Marc Aurel Stein, (Stein Márk Aurél; 26 November 1862 – 26 October 1943) was a Hungarian-born British archaeologist, primarily known for his explorations and archaeological discoveries in Central Asia.
Étienne Lamotte
Étienne Paul Marie Lamotte (21 November 1903 – 5 May 1983) was a Belgian priest and Professor of Greek at the Catholic University of Louvain, but was better known as an Indologist and the greatest authority on Buddhism in the West in his time.
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Ājīvika
Ajivika (IAST) is one of the ''nāstika'' or "heterodox" schools of Indian philosophy.
Ānanda
Ānanda (Pali and Sanskrit: आनन्द; 5th4th century BCE) was the primary attendant of the Buddha and one of his ten principal disciples.
Bairat Temple
Bairat Temple is a freestanding Buddhist temple, a Chaityagriha, located about a mile southwest of the city Viratnagar, Rajasthan, India, on a hill locally called "Bijak-ki-Pahari".
Bamboo
Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
Barabar Caves
The Barabar Hill Caves (Hindi बराबर, Barābar) are the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India, dating from the Maurya Empire (322–185 BCE), some with Ashokan inscriptions, located in the Makhdumpur region of Jehanabad district, Bihar, India, north of Gaya.
Basileus
Basileus (βασιλεύς) is a Greek term and title that has signified various types of monarchs throughout history.
Bharatvarsh (TV series)
Bharatvarsh is an Indian television historical documentary series, hosted by actor-director Anupam Kher on Hindi news channel ABP News.
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Bharhut
Bharhut is a village located in the Satna district of Madhya Pradesh, central India.
Bhikkhu
A bhikkhu (Pali: भिक्खु, Sanskrit: भिक्षु, bhikṣu) is an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism.
Bhikkhunī
A bhikkhunī (𑀪𑀺𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀼𑀦𑀻) or bhikṣuṇī (भिक्षुणी) is a Buddhist nun, fully ordained female in Buddhist monasticism.
Bhima
In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Bhima (भीम) is the second among the five Pandavas.
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Bhir Mound
The Bhir Mound (بھڑ ماونڈ) is an archaeological site in Taxila in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
Bihar
Bihar is a state in Eastern India.
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Bimbisara
Bimbisāra (in Buddhist tradition) or Shrenika and Seniya in the Jain histories was the King of Magadha (V. K. Agnihotri (ed.), Indian History. Allied Publishers, New Delhi 262010, f. or) and belonged to the Haryanka dynasty. Ashoka and Bimbisara are Indian Buddhist monarchs.
Bindusara
Bindusara (320 BCE – 273 BCE) was the second Mauryan emperor of Magadha in Ancient India. Ashoka and Bindusara are 3rd-century BC Indian monarchs and Mauryan emperors.
Bodh Gaya
Bodh Gayā is a religious site and place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi Temple complex, situated in the Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. Ashoka and Bodh Gaya are history of Buddhism in India.
Bodhi Tree
The Bodhi Tree ("tree of awakening"), also called the Mahabodhi Tree, Bo Tree, is a large sacred fig tree (Ficus religiosa) located in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India.
Brahmi script
Brahmi (ISO: Brāhmī) is a writing system of ancient India.
Brahmin
Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Buddhist councils
Since the death of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, Buddhist monastic communities ("sangha") have periodically convened to settle doctrinal and disciplinary disputes and to revise and correct the contents of the Buddhist canons.
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Burmese language
Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar, where it is the official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Bamar, the country's principal ethnic group.
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Butkara Stupa
The Butkara Stupa (Pashto: بت کړه سټوپا) is an important Buddhist stupa near Mingora, in the area of Swat, Pakistan.
Caduceus
The caduceus (☤;; cādūceus, from κηρύκειον kērū́keion "herald's wand, or staff") is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology and consequently by Hermes Trismegistus in Greco-Egyptian mythology.
Chakravala method
The chakravala method (चक्रवाल विधि) is a cyclic algorithm to solve indeterminate quadratic equations, including Pell's equation.
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Chakravarti (Sanskrit term)
A chakravarti (चक्रवर्तिन्) is an ideal (or idealized) universal ruler, in the history, and religion of India.
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Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat
Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat (English: The Great Emperor Ashoka) is a 2015 Indian historical drama TV series that aired on Colors TV from 2 February 2015 to 7 October 2016.
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Champapuri
Champapuri, Champa Nagri or Champanagar is a neighbourhood in Bhagalpur in the Indian state of Bihar.
Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta Maurya (350–295 BCE) was the Emperor of Magadha from 322 BC to 297 BC and founder of the Maurya dynasty which ruled over a geographically-extensive empire based in Magadha. Ashoka and Chandragupta Maurya are 3rd-century BC Indian monarchs and Mauryan emperors.
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Charumati
Charumati (Brahmi: 𑀘𑀸 𑀭𑀼𑀼 𑀫𑀓𑀻), sometimes called Charumitra, was a daughter of Indian Maurya Emperor Ashoka and the adopted daughter of his wife, Empress Asandhimitra. Ashoka and Charumati are Indian Buddhists.
Chaturmasya
Chaturmasya (lit), also rendered Chāturmāsa, is a holy period of four months, beginning on Shayani Ekadashi (June-July) and ending on Prabodhini Ekadashi (October-November) in Hinduism.
Chinese language
Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.
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Christopher I. Beckwith
Christopher I. Beckwith (born October 23, 1945) is an American philologist and distinguished professor in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana.
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Chrysoberyl
The mineral or gemstone chrysoberyl is an aluminate of beryllium with the formula BeAl2O4.
Colors TV
Colors (stylized as colors viacom 18) is an Indian general entertainment pay television channel owned by Viacom18.
Dasharatha Maurya
Dasharatha Maurya was the 4th Mauryan emperor from 232 to 224 BCE. He was a grandson of Ashoka The Great and is commonly held to have succeeded him as the Emperor of India. Dasharatha presided over a declining imperium and several territories of the empire broke away from central rule during his reign. Ashoka and Dasharatha Maurya are 3rd-century BC Indian monarchs, Indian Buddhist monarchs, Indian Buddhists and Mauryan emperors.
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Dīpavaṃsa
The Dīpavaṃsa (दीपवंस,, "Chronicle of the Island") is the oldest historical record of Sri Lanka.
Delhi-Topra pillar
The Delhi-Topra pillar is one of the pillars of Ashoka, inscribed with the moral edicts promulgated by Ashoka, the Mauryan Emperor who ruled in the Indian subcontinent during the 3rd century BCE.
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Deur Kothar
Deorkothar (Devanāgarī: also Deur Kothar) is a location of archaeological importance in Madhya Pradesh, Central India.
Deva (Buddhism)
A Deva (Sanskrit and Pali: देव; Mongolian: тэнгэр, tenger) in Buddhism is a type of celestial being or god who shares the god-like characteristics of being more powerful, longer-lived, and, in general, much happier than humans, although the same level of veneration is not paid to them as to Buddhas.
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Devanampiya Tissa of Anuradhapura
Tissa, later Devanampiya Tissa, meaning (Loved by Gods), was one of the earliest kings of Sri Lanka based at the ancient capital of Anuradhapura. Ashoka and Devanampiya Tissa of Anuradhapura are Converts to Buddhism.
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Devanampriya
Devanampriya (Devanagari: देवनामप्रिय), also called Devanampiya (Brahmi script: 𑀤𑁂𑀯𑀸𑀦𑀁𑀧𑀺𑀬, Devānaṃpiya), was a Pali honorific epithet used by a few Indian monarchs, but most particularly the 3rd Mauryan Emperor Ashoka The Great (r.269-233 BCE) in his inscriptions (the Edicts of Ashoka).
Devi (wife of Ashoka)
Maharani Devi (302 BCE – 242 BCE) was, according to the Sri Lankan chronicles, the first wife of the third Mauryan Emperor Ashoka. She was also the mother of Ashoka's first two children—his son, Mahendra, and daughter, Sanghamitra—both of whom played important roles in the spread of Buddhism to other countries.
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Dhamek Stupa
Dhamek Stupa (also spelled Dhamekh and Dhamekha) is a massive stupa located at the archaeological site of Sarnath in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Dharma
Dharma (धर्म) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism), among others.
Dharmarajika Stupa
The Dharmarajika Stupa (دھرمراجک اسٹوپا), also referred to as the Great Stupa of Taxila, is a Buddhist stupa near Taxila, Pakistan.
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Dharmaraksita
Dharmarakṣita (Sanskrit, 'Protected by the Dharma')(Pali: Dhammarakkhita), was one of the missionaries sent by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka to proselytize Buddhism. Ashoka and Dharmaraksita are Indian Buddhist missionaries.
Dhauli
Dhauli or Dhauligiri is a hill located on the banks of the river Daya, 8 km south of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, India.
Dionysius (ambassador)
Dionysius (Διονύσιος) was a Greek of the 3rd century BCE, who was sent by Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt as ambassador to the court of the Maurya Empire, in the reign of either Bindusara or Ashoka.
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Divyavadana
The Divyāvadāna or Divine narratives is a Sanskrit anthology of Buddhist avadana tales, many originating in Mūlasarvāstivādin vinaya texts.
Dutugamunu
Dutugamunu the Great, also known as Duṭṭhagāmaṇī Abhaya, was a king of the Anuradhapura Kingdom who reigned from 161 BC to 137 BC.
Edicts of Ashoka
The Edicts of Ashoka are a collection of more than thirty inscriptions on the Pillars of Ashoka, as well as boulders and cave walls, attributed to Emperor Ashoka of the Maurya Empire who ruled most of the Indian subcontinent from 268 BCE to 232 BCE.
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Ekta Kapoor
Ekta Kapoor (born 7 June 1975) is an Indian television producer, film producer and director who works in Hindi cinema and soap operas.
Erich Frauwallner
Erich Frauwallner (December 28, 1898 – July 5, 1974) was an Austrian professor, a pioneer in the field of Buddhist studies.
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Eusebeia
Eusebeia (Greek: εὐσέβεια from εὐσεβής "pious" from εὖ eu meaning "well", and σέβας sebas meaning "reverence", itself formed from seb- meaning sacred awe and reverence especially in actions) is a Greek word abundantly used in Greek philosophy as well as in Greek translations of texts of Indian religions and the Greek New Testament, meaning to perform the actions appropriate to the gods.
Faxian
Faxian (337–), formerly romanized as Fa-hien and Fa-hsien, was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled on foot from Jin China to medieval India to acquire Buddhist scriptures.
Firuz Shah Tughlaq
Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309 – 20 September 1388) was a Muslim ruler from the Tughlaq dynasty, who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388.
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Flag of India
The national flag of India, colloquially called Tiraṅgā (the tricolour), is a horizontal rectangular tricolour flag, the colours being of India saffron, white and India green; with the Ashoka Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel, in navy blue at its centre.
Four Noble Truths
In Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths (caturāriyasaccāni; "The Four Arya Satya") are "the truths of the Noble Ones", the truths or realities for the "spiritually worthy ones".
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French School of the Far East
The French School of the Far East (École Française d'Extrême-Orient,; also translated as The French School of Asian StudiesPreferred translation by EFEO staff. See.), abbreviated EFEO, is an associated college of PSL University dedicated to the study of Asian societies.
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Gandhara
Gandhara was an ancient Indo-Aryan civilization centred in present-day north-west Pakistan and north-east Afghanistan. Ashoka and Gandhara are ancient history of Afghanistan and ancient history of Pakistan.
George Turnour
George Turnour Jnr, CCS (1799–1843) was a British colonial administrator, scholar and a historian.
Girnar
Girnar is an ancient hill in Junagadh, Gujarat, India.
Golden Age of India
Certain historical time periods have been named "golden ages", where development flourished, including on the Indian subcontinent. Ashoka and Golden Age of India are ancient India.
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Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (lit) was a Greek state of the Hellenistic period located in Central Asia. Ashoka and Greco-Bactrian Kingdom are ancient history of Afghanistan.
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Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Hachette Livre
Hachette Livre (or simply known as Hachette) is a French publishing group that was based in Paris.
Harappa
Harappa is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about west of Sahiwal.
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Hegesias of Cyrene
Hegesias (Ἡγησίας) of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher.
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Hellenistic period
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom.
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Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri
Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri (হেম চন্দ্র রায়চৌধুরী) (8 April 1892 – 4 May 1957Raychaudhuri, Hemchandra (1972). Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty, Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 7th edition, pp.
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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
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Historical Vedic religion
The historical Vedic religion, also known as Vedicism and Vedism, sometimes called "Ancient Hinduism", constituted the religious ideas and practices prevalent amongst the Indo-Aryan peoples of the northwest Indian subcontinent (Punjab and the western Ganges plain) during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE).
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History of Gujarat
The history of Gujarat began with Stone Age settlements followed by Chalcolithic and Bronze Age settlements like Indus Valley civilisation.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian religions
Indian religions, sometimes also termed Dharmic religions or Indic religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent.
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Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Indica (Megasthenes)
Indika (Greek: Ἰνδικά; Latin: Indica) is an account of Mauryan India by the Greek writer Megasthenes.
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Jainism
Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.
Jaishankar Prasad
Jaishankar Prasad (30 January 1889 15 November 1937) was a prominent figure in modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre.
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Jalauka
Jalauka (also known as Jaluka) was, according to the 12th century Kashmiri chronicle, the Rajatarangini, a king of Kashmir, who cleared the valley of oppressing Malechas.
Jambudvīpa
Jambudvīpa (Sanskrit; Jambudīpa) is a name often used to describe the territory of Greater India in ancient Indian sources.
James Prinsep
James Prinsep (20 August 1799 – 22 April 1840) was an English scholar, orientalist and antiquary.
Jaugada
Jaugada ("Jaugarh", ancient Samapa) is a ruined fortress in the Ganjam district in Odisha, India.
Johannes Bronkhorst
Johannes Bronkhorst (born 17 July 1946, in Schiedam) is a Dutch Orientalist and Indologist, specializing in Buddhist studies and early Buddhism.
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John Marshall (archaeologist)
Sir John Hubert Marshall (19 March 1876, Chester, England – 17 August 1958, Guildford, England) was an English archaeologist who was Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1902 to 1928.
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John S. Strong
John S. Strong is an American academic, who is the Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Bates College.
Junagadh rock inscription of Rudradaman
The Junagadh rock inscription of Rudradaman, also known as the Girnar Rock inscription of Rudradaman, is a Sanskrit prose inscribed on a rock by the Western Satraps ruler Rudradaman I. It is located near Girnar hill near Junagadh, Gujarat, India.
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Kalinga (historical region)
Kalinga is a historical region of India.
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Kalinga War
The Kalinga War (ended)Le Huu Phuoc, Buddhist Architecture, Grafikol 2009, p.30 was fought in ancient India between the Maurya Empire under Ashoka the Great and Kalinga, an independent feudal kingdom located on the east coast, in the present-day state of Odisha and northern parts of Andhra Pradesh.
Kama
Kama (Sanskrit: काम) is the concept of pleasure, enjoyment and desire in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
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Kandahar
Kandahar is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of.
Kandahar Aramaic inscription
The Aramaic inscription of Kandahar is an inscription on a fragment of a block of limestone (24x18 cm) discovered in the ruins of Old Kandahar, Afghanistan in 1963, and published in 1966 by André Dupont-Sommer.
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Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription
The Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription, also known as the Kandahar Edict of Ashoka and less commonly as the Chehel Zina Edict, is an inscription in the Greek and Aramaic languages that dates back to 260 BCE and was carved by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka at Chehel Zina, a mountainous outcrop near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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Kandahar Greek Edicts of Ashoka
The Kandahar Greek Edicts of Ashoka are among the Major Rock Edicts of the Indian Emperor Ashoka (reigned 269-233 BCE), which were written in the Greek language and Prakrit language.
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Karma
Karma (from कर्म,; italic) is an ancient Indian concept that refers to an action, work, or deed, and its effect or consequences.
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Karnataka
Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.
Karshapana
Karshapana (कार्षापण, IAST: Kārṣāpaṇa), according to the Ashtadhyayi of Panini, refers to ancient Indian coins current during the 6th century BCE onwards, which were unstamped and stamped (āhata) metallic pieces whose validity depended on the integrity of the person authenticating them. Ashoka and Karshapana are ancient India.
Karuvaki
Kaurvaki was the "Second Queen Consort" of the third Mauryan Emperor, Ashoka The Great. Ashoka and Karuvaki are Indian Buddhists.
Kashmiris
Kashmiris are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group speaking the Kashmiri language and originating from the Kashmir Valley, which is today located in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
Kathāvatthu
Kathāvatthu (Pāli) (abbreviated Kv, Kvu) is a Buddhist scripture, one of the seven books in the Theravada Abhidhamma Pitaka.
Kharosthi
The Kharoṣṭhī script, also known as the Gāndhārī script, was an ancient Indic script used by various peoples from the north-western outskirts of the Indian subcontinent (present-day Pakistan) to Central Asia via Afghanistan. Ashoka and Kharosthi are ancient history of Afghanistan and ancient history of Pakistan.
Khasas
Khasas (Sanskrit: खश) were an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe and a late Janapada kingdom from Himalayan regions of northern Indian subcontinent mentioned in the various historical Indian inscriptions and ancient Indian Hindu and Tibetan literature. Ashoka and Khasas are ancient India.
Khmer language
Khmer (ខ្មែរ, UNGEGN) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Khmer people and the official and national language of Cambodia.
Koliya
Koliya (Pāli) was an ancient Indo-Aryan clan of north-eastern South Asia whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.
Kshatriya
Kshatriya (from Sanskrit, "rule, authority"; also called Rajanya) is one of the four varnas (social orders) of Hindu society and is associated with the warrior aristocracy.
Kukkutarama
Kukkutarama was a Buddhist monastery in Pataliputra in eastern India, which is famous as the location of various "Discourses at the Kukkutarama Monastery", and for the eponymous "Kukkutarama sutra".
Kumhrar
Kumhrar or Kumrahar is the area of Patna where remains of the ancient city of Pataliputra were excavated by the Archaeological Survey of India starting from 1913.
Kunala
Kunala (IAST) (263 BC – ?) was the Crown Prince and second son of 3rd Mauryan Emperor Ashoka and Empress Padmavati and the presumptive heir to Ashoka, thus the heir to the Mauryan Empire which once ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent.
Kushan coinage
In the coinage of the North Indian and Central Asian Kushan Empire (approximately 30–375 CE), the main coins issued were gold, weighing 7.9 grams, and base metal issues of various weights between 12 g and 1.5 g.
Kushan Empire
The Kushan Empire (– AD) was a syncretic empire formed by the Yuezhi in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century. Ashoka and Kushan Empire are ancient history of Afghanistan, ancient history of Pakistan and history of Buddhism in India.
Lao language
Lao (Lao: ພາສາລາວ), sometimes referred to as Laotian, is the official language of Laos and a significant language in the Isan region of northeastern Thailand, where it is usually referred to as the Isan language.
Lauria Nandangarh
Lauria Nandangarh, also Lauriya Navandgarh, is a city or town about 14 km from Narkatiaganj (or Shikarpur) and 28 km from Bettiah in West Champaran district of Bihar state in northern India.
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Lauriya Araraj
Lauriya Araraj, also Lauriya Areraj, is a location name in the East Champaran District of the State of Bihar in India.
Lion Capital of Ashoka
The Lion Capital of Ashoka is the capital, or head, of a column erected by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka the Great in Sarnath, India,.
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List of edicts of Ashoka
The following is an overview of Edicts of Ashoka, and where they are located.
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List of Indian monarchs
This article is a list of the various dynasties and monarchs that have ruled in the Indian subcontinent and it is one of several lists of incumbents.
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List of Maurya emperors
The Maurya Empire (c. 322–185 BCE) was an ancient Indian empire. Ashoka and List of Maurya emperors are Mauryan emperors.
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List of people known as the Great
This is a list of people known as the Great, or the equivalent, in their own language.
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Lost literary work
A lost literary work (referred throughout this article just as a lost work) is a document, literary work, or piece of multimedia, produced of which no surviving copies are known to exist, meaning it can be known only through reference.
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Lumbini
Lumbinī (IPA, "the lovely") is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi District of Lumbini Province in Nepal.
Lumbini pillar inscription
The Lumbini pillar inscription, also called the Paderia inscription, is an inscription in the ancient Brahmi script, discovered in December 1896 on a pillar of Ashoka in Lumbini, Nepal by former Chief of the Nepalese Army General Khadga Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana under the authority of Nepalese government and assisted by Alois Anton Führer.
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Madan Theatre
Madan Theatre Company, also known as Madan Theatres Limited or Madan Theatres in short, was a film production company founded by Jamshedji Framji & his partner Kanhaiyalal Kaushik, one of the pioneers of Indian Cinema.
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (meaning 'central province') is a state in central India.
Magadha
Magadha also called the Kingdom of Magadha or the Magadha Empire, was a kingdom and empire, and one of the sixteen lit during the Second Urbanization period, based in southern Bihar in the eastern Ganges Plain, in Ancient India.
Magas of Cyrene
Magas of Cyrene (Μάγας ὁ Κυρηναῖος; born before 317 BC – 250 BC, ruled 276 BC – 250 BC) was a Greek King of Cyrenaica.
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Maha
Maha and MAHA may refer to.
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Mahabodhi Temple
The Mahabodhi Temple (literally: "Great Awakening Temple") or the Mahābodhi Mahāvihāra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is an ancient, but restored Buddhist temple in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India, marking the location where the Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment.
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Mahavira
Mahavira (Devanagari: महावीर), also known as Vardhamana (Devanagari: वर्धमान), the 24th Tirthankara (Supreme Teacher) of Jainism.
Mahāvaṃsa
Mahāvaṃsa (Sinhala: මහාවංශ (Mahāvansha), Pali: මහාවංස (Mahāvaṃsa)) is the meticulously kept historical chronicle of Sri Lanka until the period of Mahasena of Anuradhapura.
Mahinda (Buddhist monk)
Mahinda (මිහිඳු මහරහතන් වහන්සේ) (285 BCE – 205 BCE) was an Indian Buddhist monk depicted in Buddhist sources as bringing Buddhism to Sri Lanka.
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Major Pillar Edicts
The Major Pillar Edicts of Indian Emperor Ashoka refer to 7 separate major Edicts of Ashoka inscribed on columns (the Pillars of Ashoka), which are significantly detailed and are among the earliest dated inscriptions of any Indian monarch.
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Major Rock Edicts
The Major Rock Edicts of Indian Emperor Ashoka refer to 14 separate major Edicts of Ashoka which are significantly detailed and represent some of the earliest dated rock inscriptions of any Indian monarch.
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Mansehra Rock Edicts
Mansehra Rock Edicts are fourteen edicts of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, inscribed on rocks in Mansehra in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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Maski
Maski is a town and an archaeological site in the Raichur district of the state of Karnataka, India.
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Mason Jennings
Mason Jennings is an American folk-pop singer-songwriter.
Maurya Empire
The Maurya Empire (Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀫𑀸𑀕𑀥𑁂, Māgadhe) was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia based in Magadha (present day Bihar). Ashoka and Maurya Empire are ancient history of Afghanistan and ancient history of Pakistan.
Mauryan polish
Mauryan polish describes one of the frequent characteristics of architecture and sculptures of the Maurya Empire in India (325 to 185 BCE), which gives a very smooth and shiny surface to the stone material, generally of sandstone or granite.
Middle Way
The Middle Way (Majjhimāpaṭipadā; Madhyamāpratipada) as well as "teaching the Dharma by the middle" (majjhena dhammaṃ deseti) are common Buddhist terms used to refer to two major aspects of the Dharma, that is, the teaching of the Buddha.
Minor Pillar Edicts
The Minor Pillar Edicts of Indian Emperor Ashoka refer to 4 separate minor Edicts of Ashoka (Schism Edict, Queen's Edict, 2 Commemorative inscriptions) inscribed on columns(Pillars of Ashoka) at 5 locations which are among the earliest dated inscriptions of any Indian monarch.
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Minor Rock Edicts
The Minor Rock Edicts of Ashoka (r. 269–233 BCE) are rock inscriptions which form the earliest part of the Edicts of Ashoka, and predate Ashoka's Major Rock Edicts.
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Moggaliputta-Tissa
Moggaliputtatissa (ca. 327–247 BCE), was a Buddhist monk and scholar who was born in Pataliputra, Magadha (now Patna, India) and lived in the 3rd century BCE. Ashoka and Moggaliputta-Tissa are Converts to Buddhism, Indian Buddhists and people from Patna.
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Mohenjo-daro
Mohenjo-daro (موهن جو دڙو,; موئن جو دڑو) is an archaeological site in Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan.
Mohit Raina
Mohit Raina (born 14 August 1982) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films and television.
Mortimer Wheeler
Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH CIE MC TD (10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976) was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army.
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Mother of Ashoka
The information about the mother of Ashoka (c. 3rd century BCE), the 3rd Mauryan emperor of ancient India, varies between different sources.
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Mudra
A mudra (मुद्रा,, "seal", "mark", or "gesture") is a symbolic or ritual gesture or pose in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.
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N. T. Rama Rao
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (28 May 1923 – 18 January 1996), often referred to by his initials NTR, was an Indian actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, film editor and politician who served as a former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for seven years over three terms.
Nalanda mahavihara
Nalanda (IAST) was a renowned Buddhist mahavihara (great monastery) in ancient and medieval Magadha (modern-day Bihar), eastern India.
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Nallasopara
Nallasopara or Nala Sopara (pronunciation: naːla sopaɾa) formerly known as Sopara or Supara, is a town within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
Nanda Empire
The Nanda dynasty was the Third ruling dynasty of Magadha in the northern Indian subcontinent during the fourth century BCE and possibly also during the fifth.
Nawabshah
Nawabshah (نوابشاھ, نوابشاہ) is a tehsil and headquarters of the Shaheed Benazirabad District of Sindh province, Pakistan.
Nāga
In various Asian religious traditions, the Nagas are a divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld (Patala), and can occasionally take human or part-human form, or are so depicted in art.
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Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
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Neutering
Neutering, from the Latin neuter ('of neither sex'), is the removal of a non-human animal's reproductive organ, either all of it or a considerably large part.
Nigali Sagar
Nigali Sagar (also called Nigliva, Nigali Sagar pillar, Nighihawa pillar, Nigliva pillar, or Araurakot pillar) is an archaeological site in Nepal containing the remains of a pillar of Ashoka.
Nirvana (Buddhism)
Nirvana (Sanskrit: निर्वाण; IAST:; Pali) is the extinguishing of the passions, the "blowing out" or "quenching" of the activity of the grasping mind and its related unease.
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Osmund Bopearachchi
Osmund Bopearachchi (born 1949) is a Sri Lankan historian and numismatist who has specialized notably standardized the coinage of the Indo-Greek and Greco-Bactrian kingdoms.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Padmavati (wife of Ashoka)
Padmavati was an empress and third wife of the third Mauryan Emperor, Ashoka and the mother of his second son, the Crown Prince Kunala.
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Pali
Pāli, also known as Pali-Magadhi, is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language on the Indian subcontinent.
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Palkigundu and Gavimath, Koppal
Palkigundu and Gavimath near Koppal in Karnataka are two locations where inscriptions of Emperor Ashoka (304–232 BCE) were found.
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Palmette
The palmette is a motif in decorative art which, in its most characteristic expression, resembles the fan-shaped leaves of a palm tree.
Pasenadi
Pasenadi (Pasenadi; Prasenajit; c. 6th century BCE) was an Aikṣvāka ruler of Kosala. Ashoka and Pasenadi are Indian Buddhist monarchs.
Pataliputra
Pataliputra (IAST), adjacent to modern-day Patna, Bihar, was a city in ancient India, originally built by Magadha ruler Ajatashatru in 490 BCE, as a small fort near the Ganges river.
Pataliputra capital
The Pataliputra capital is a monumental rectangular capital with volutes and Classical Greek designs, that was discovered in the palace ruins of the ancient Mauryan Empire capital city of Pataliputra (modern Patna, northeastern India).
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Pati
Pati may refer to.
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Patna
Patna, historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. Covering and over 2.5 million people, its urban agglomeration is the 15th largest in India.
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Pearson Education
Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc.
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Persepolis
Persepolis (Pārsa) was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire.
Phyllanthus emblica
Phyllanthus emblica, also known as emblic, emblic myrobalan, myrobalan, Indian gooseberry, Malacca tree, or amla, from the Sanskrit आमलकी (āmalakī), is a deciduous tree of the family Phyllanthaceae.
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Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born 6 August 1934) is an American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony.
Pillars of Ashoka
The pillars of Ashoka are a series of monolithic pillars dispersed throughout the Indian subcontinent, erected—or at least inscribed with edicts—by the 3rd Mauryan Emperor Ashoka the Great, who reigned from to 232 BC.
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Plaster
Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.
Pracchand Ashok
Pracchand Ashok is an Indian Hindi-language historical fictional drama television series that aired from 6 February 2024 to 29 March 2024 on Colors TV and JioCinema.
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Prakrit
Prakrit is a group of vernacular Middle Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the Indian subcontinent from around the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE.
Pratyekabuddhayāna
Pratyekabuddhayāna (Sanskrit: प्रत्येकबुद्धयान) is a Buddhist term for the mode or vehicle of enlightenment of a pratyekabuddha or paccekabuddha (Sanskrit and Pali respectively), a term which literally means "solitary buddha" or "a buddha on their own" (prati- each, eka-one).
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Priyadasi
Priyadasi, also Piyadasi or Priyadarshi (Brahmi: 𑀧𑀺𑀬𑀤𑀲𑀺 piyadasi, translit), was the name of a ruler in ancient India, most likely Ashoka the Great; literally an honorific epithet which means "He who regards others with kindness", "Humane", "He who glances amiably".
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Ptolemy II Philadelphus (Ptolemaîos Philádelphos, "Ptolemy, sibling-lover"; 309 – 28 January 246 BC) was the pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt from 284 to 246 BC.
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Pul-i-Darunteh Aramaic inscription
The Pul-i-Darunteh Aramaic inscription, also called Aramaic inscription of Lampaka, is an inscription on a rock in the valley of Laghman ("Lampaka" being the transcription in Sanskrit of "Laghman"), Afghanistan, written in Aramaic by the Indian emperor Ashoka around 260 BCE.
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Punch-marked coins
Punch-marked coins, also known as Aahat coins, are a type of early coinage of India, dating to between about the 6th and 2nd centuries BC. Ashoka and Punch-marked coins are ancient India.
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Pundravardhana
Pundravardhana or Pundra Kingdom (Puṇḍravardhana), was an ancient kingdom of Iron Age South Asia located in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent with a territory that included parts of present-day Rajshahi and parts of Rangpur Division of Bangladesh as well as the West Dinajpur district of West Bengal, India.
Puranas
Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.
Rajatarangini
Rājataraṅgiṇī (Sanskrit: राजतरङ्गिणी, romanized: rājataraṅgiṇī, IPA: ɾɑː.d͡ʑɐ.t̪ɐˈɾɐŋ.ɡi.ɳiː, "The River of Kings") is a metrical legendary and historical chronicle of the north-western part of Indian sub-continent, particularly the kings of Kashmir.
Ramagrama stupa
Ramagrama stupa (रामग्राम नगरपालिका, also Ramgram, Rāmgrām, Rāmagrāma) is a stupa located in Ramgram Municipality, in the Parasi District of Nepal.
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Rampurva capitals
The Rampurva capitals are the capitals of a pair of Ashoka Pillars discovered in by A. C. L. Carlleyle.
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Ratan Thiyam
Ratan Thiyam (born 20 January 1948) is an Indian playwright and theatre director, and the winner of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1987, one of leading figures of the "theatre of roots" movement in Indian theatre, which started in the 1970s.
Ratha
Ratha (Proto-Indo-Iranian: ''*Hrátʰas'', Vedic Sanskrit: रथ,; Avestan: raθa) is the Indo-Iranian term for a spoked-wheel chariot.
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Regnal name
A regnal name, regnant name, or reign name is the name used by monarchs and popes during their reigns and subsequently, historically.
Religious tolerance
Religious tolerance or religious toleration may signify "no more than forbearance and the permission given by the adherents of a dominant religion for other religions to exist, even though the latter are looked on with disapproval as inferior, mistaken, or harmful".
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Richard Gombrich
Richard Francis Gombrich (born 17 July 1937) is a British Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit, Pāli, and Buddhist studies.
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Ringstone
The ringstone is a distinctive type of artefact and miniature sculpture made in India during the approximate period of the Mauryan Empire (c. 322–185 BCE) and the following Sunga Empire (187–78 BCE).
Rock edicts of Khalsi
The Rock edicts of Khalsi, also spelled Kalsi, are a group of an Indian rock inscriptions written by the Indian Emperor Ashoka around 250 BCE.
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Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar (born 30 November 1931) is an Indian historian.
Rudradaman I
Rudradāman I (r. 130–150) was a Śaka ruler from the Western Kshatrapas dynasty.
Saka language
Saka, or Sakan, was a variety of Eastern Iranian languages, attested from the ancient Buddhist kingdoms of Khotan, Kashgar and Tumshuq in the Tarim Basin, in what is now southern Xinjiang, China.
Samantapasadika
Samantapāsādikā refers to a collection of Pali commentaries on the Theravada Tipitaka Vinaya.
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Samrat
Samrat or Samraat may refer to.
Samrat Ashoka
Samrat Ashoka is a 1992 Indian Telugu-language historical drama film produced and directed by N. T. Rama Rao under his Ramakrishna Horticultural Cine Studios banner.
Sanchi
Sanchi Stupa is a Buddhist complex, famous for its Great Stupa, on a hilltop at Sanchi Town in Raisen District of the State of Madhya Pradesh, India.
Sangha
Sangha is a Sanskrit word used in many Indian languages, including Pali which means "association", "assembly", "company" or "community"; in these languages, sangha is frequently used as a surname.
Sanghamitta
Saṅghamittā (Saṅghamitrā in Sanskrit, nun's name Ayapali; 282 BC – 203 BC) was an Indian Buddhist nun and believed to be the eldest daughter (Sri Lankan Tradition) of Emperor Ashoka (304 BC – 232 BC) and his first wife and Empress, Devi (302 BCE – 242 BCE).
Sannati
Sannati or Sannathi is a small village, located on the banks of the Bhima River in Chitapur taluk of Kalaburagi district of Northern Karnataka.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Santosh Sivan
Santosh Sivan (born 8 February 1964) is an Indian cinematographer, film director, producer and actor known for his works in Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi cinema.
Saraca asoca
Saraca asoca, commonly known as the ashoka tree (lit. "sorrow-less"), is a plant belonging to the Detarioideae subfamily of the legume family.
Sarnath
Sarnath (also referred to as Sarangnath, Isipatana, Rishipattana, Migadaya, or Mrigadava) is a place located northeast of Varanasi, near the confluence of the Ganges and the Varuna rivers in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Saru Maru
Saru Maru is the archaeological site of an ancient monastic complex and Buddhist caves.
Sasaram
Sasaram, also spelled as Shahasaram, is a historical city and a municipal corporation region in the Rohtas district of Bihar state in eastern India.
Seleucid Empire
The Seleucid Empire (lit) was a Greek power in West Asia during the Hellenistic period.
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Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucus I Nicator (Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ) was a Macedonian Greek general, officer and successor of Alexander the Great who went on to found the eponymous Seleucid Empire, led by the Seleucid dynasty.
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Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan (born 2 November 1965), also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi cinema.
Shahbaz Garhi
Shahbaz Garhi, or Shahbazgarhi, is a village and historic site located in Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Shakya
Shakya (Pāḷi:; translit) was an ancient clan of the northeastern region of South Asia, whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.
Shravasti
Shravasti (श्रावस्ती); translit) is a town in Shravasti district in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was the capital of the ancient Indian kingdom of Kosala and the place where the Buddha lived most after his enlightenment. It is near the Rapti river in the northeastern part of Uttar Pradesh India, close to the Nepalese border.
Siddharth Nigam
Siddharth Nigam is an Indian actor who works in Indian television and films.
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Sinhala language
Sinhala (Sinhala: සිංහල), sometimes called Sinhalese, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the island, numbering about 16 million.
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Sirkap
Sirkap (Urdu and سرکپ) is the name of an archaeological site on the bank opposite to the city of Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan.
Sohgaura copper plate inscription
The Sohgaura copper plate inscription is an Indian copper plate inscription written in Prakrit in the Mauryan period Brahmi script.
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Space opera
Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and chivalric romance.
State Emblem of India
The State Emblem of India (ISO: Bhārata Kā Rājakīya Cihna) is the national emblem of the Republic of India and is used by the union government, many state governments, and other government agencies.
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Stupa
In Buddhism, a stupa (lit) is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (such as śarīra – typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation.
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Susima
Susima (also Sushima) was the crown prince of the Maurya Empire of ancient India and the eldest son and heir-apparent of the second Mauryan emperor Bindusara.
Swat District
Swat District (سوات ولسوالۍ), also known as the Swat Valley, is a district in the Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Talbot Mundy
Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon, 23 April 1879 – 5 August 1940) was an English writer of adventure fiction.
Tamil language
Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia.
Taranatha
Tāranātha (1575–1634) was a Lama of the Jonang school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Taxila
Taxila or Takshashila (Takṣaśilā; Takkasilā) is a city in the Pothohar region of Punjab, Pakistan.
Thai language
Thai,In ภาษาไทย| ''Phasa Thai'' or Central Thai (historically Siamese;Although "Thai" and "Central Thai" have become more common, the older term, "Siamese", is still used by linguists, especially when it is being distinguished from other Tai languages (Diller 2008:6).
Thatching
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
The Emperor's Riddles
The Emperor's Riddles is a mystery thriller debut novel by Indian author Satyarth Nayak.
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The Mahabharata Secret
The Mahabharata Secret is the debut novel by Indian author Christopher C. Doyle and was released on 21 October 2013 by Om Books.
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The Nine Unknown
The Nine Unknown is a 1923 novel by Talbot Mundy.
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Tibetic languages
The Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descending from Old Tibetan (7th to 9th centuries,Tournadre, Nicolas. 2014. "The Tibetic languages and their classification." In Trans-Himalayan linguistics, historical and descriptive linguistics of the Himalayan area. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Tirthika
Tīrthika (tīrthika, titthiya, "ford-maker," meaning one who is attempting to cross the stream of saṃsāra) in Buddhism is a term referring to non-Buddhist heretics.
Tishyaraksha
Tishyaraksha or Tissarakkhā (c. 3rd century BCE) was the fifth and last wife of the third Mauryan emperor, Ashoka.
Tivala
Tivala (born 3rd-century BC), also referred to as Tivara, was a fourth son of Maurya Emperor Ashoka from his second queen, Karuvaki.
Topra Kalan
Topra, combined name for the larger Topra Kalan and adjacent smaller Topra Khurd, is a Mauryan Empire-era village in Yamunanagar district of Haryana state in India.
Triskelion
A triskelion or triskeles is an ancient motif consisting either of a triple spiral exhibiting rotational symmetry or of other patterns in triplicate that emanate from a common center.
Tughlaq dynasty
The Tughlaq dynasty (also known as Tughluq or Tughluk dynasty; تغلق شاهیان) was the third dynasty to rule over the Delhi sultanate in medieval India.
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Udayin
Udayin (-444 BCE) also known as Udayabhadra was a king of Magadha in ancient India. Ashoka and Udayin are Indian Buddhist monarchs.
Ujjain
Ujjain (Hindustani pronunciation: ʊd͡ːʒɛːn, old name Avantika) or Ujjayinī is a city in Ujjain district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Uparaja
Uparaja or Ouparath, also Ouparaja (ဥပရာဇာ; ឧបរាជ, UNGEGN:, ALA-LC:; อุปราช,; ອຸປຮາດ, Oupahat), is a noble title reserved for the viceroy in India and the Buddhist dynasties in Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, as well as some of their minor tributary kingdoms.
Upāsaka
Upāsaka (masculine) or Upāsikā (feminine) are from the Sanskrit and Pāli words for "attendant".
Uposatha
An Uposatha (Upavasatha) day is a Buddhist day of observance, in existence since the Buddha's time (600 BCE), and still being kept today by Buddhist practitioners.
V. Nagayya
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Vajrasana, Bodh Gaya
The Vajrasana (diamond throne), or Enlightenment Throne of the Buddha, is an ancient stone slab located under the Bodhi tree, directly beside the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya.
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Vidisha
Vidisha (विदिशा, formerly known as Bhelsa and known as Besnagar and Bhaddilpur in ancient times) is a city in central Madhya Pradesh, India.
Vihāra
Vihāra generally refers to a Buddhist monastery for Buddhist renunciates, mostly in the Indian subcontinent.
War elephant
A war elephant was an elephant that was trained and guided by humans for combat.
Wytze Keuning
Wytze (nom de plume) or Wietse Keuning (official name) (21 December 1876, Tolbert – 18 December 1957, Groningen) was a Dutch school teacher, author and classical music critic.
Xuanzang
Xuanzang ((Hsüen Tsang); 6 April 6025 February 664), born Chen Hui / Chen Yi (/), also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mokṣadeva, was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator.
Yajna
Yajna (also pronounced as Yag) (lit) in Hinduism refers to any ritual done in front of a sacred fire, often with mantras.
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Yaksha
The Yakshas (यक्ष,, i) are a broad class of nature spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous or capricious, connected with water, fertility, trees, the forest, treasure and wilderness.
Yijing (monk)
Yijing (635–713CE), formerly romanized as or, born Zhang Wenming, was a Tang-era Chinese Buddhist monk famed as a traveller and translator.
Yona
The word Yona in Pali and the Prakrits, and the analogue Yavana in Sanskrit and Yavanar in Tamil, were words used in Ancient India to designate Greek speakers.
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Yuvaraja
Yuvaraja, also rendered Yuvraj, is an Indian title for the crown prince, and the heir apparent to the throne of an Indian (notably Hindu) kingdom, empire or (notably in the Mughal Empire or Indian Empire) princely state.
See also
3rd-century BC Indian monarchs
- Ashoka
- Bindusara
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Dasharatha Maurya
- Devavarman (Maurya)
- Nedunjeliyan I
- Samprati
- Shalishuka
- Sophagasenus
3rd-century Buddhism
- Ashoka
- Geyi
- Pha That Luang
Ancient India
- Ancient Indian architecture
- Ancient Indian medicine
- Ancient scripts of the Indian subcontinent
- Aryan
- Ashoka
- Azes era
- Brahmanical System of Education
- Dating the Tirukkural
- Early history of Himachal Pradesh
- Edakkal caves
- Gaṇasaṅgha
- Glossary of names for the Tirukkural
- Golden Age of India
- Indo-Greek Kingdom
- Indo-Greeks
- Iron Age in India
- Kapil Ashram
- Karshapana
- Keke Moirang
- Khasas
- Magadha period
- Outline of ancient India
- Perunthogai
- Proto-Indo-Aryan language
- Punch-marked coins
- Sabhā
- Sangam period
- Shreni
- Silver Reliquary of Indravarman
- Tamilakam
- Tiruvalluva Malai
- Tivaru
- Tyndis
- Valluvar year
- Vasuki (wife of Valluvar)
- Vedic period
- Vijayamitra
Ancient history of Afghanistan
- Ambantae
- Ancient history of Afghanistan
- Arachosia
- Aria (region)
- Aristophyli
- Ashoka
- Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex
- Bahlikas
- Buddhism in Afghanistan
- Chiliss
- Cleophis
- Gandhara
- Gandharan Buddhism
- Gandhāran Buddhist texts
- Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
- Greco-Buddhism
- Hindu and Buddhist heritage of Afghanistan
- Hinduism in Afghanistan
- Indo-Greek Kingdom
- Indo-Greeks
- Indo-Parthian Kingdom
- Indo-Scythians
- Kabul hoard
- Kharosthi
- Kushan Empire
- Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom
- Kushanshahr
- Kushanshahs
- Maurya Empire
- Nava Vihara
- Parietae
- Parthian Empire
- Pre-Islamic scripts in Afghanistan
- Salatarae
- Sasanian Empire
- Silk Road
- Song Yun
- Tazarene
- Turvayana
- Tushara
Ancient history of Pakistan
- Acadera
- Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley
- Ashoka
- Gandhara
- Ghurid dynasty
- India (Herodotus)
- Indian campaign of Alexander the Great
- Indo-Parthian Kingdom
- Indo-Scythians
- Kharosthi
- Komedes
- Kushan Empire
- Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom
- Maurya Empire
- Parthian Empire
- Patalene
- Patan minara
- Sagala
- Sasanian Empire
- Sattagydia
- Sauvira Kingdom
- Song Yun
- Turvayana
- Vedic period
History of Buddhism in India
- 2013 Bodh Gaya bombings
- Allakappa
- Ashoka
- Asita
- Avakinnayo Karakandu
- Bakraur
- Bodh Gaya
- Buddhism in North Karnataka
- Chullakalinga
- Decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent
- Early Buddhism
- History of Buddhism in India
- Karchag Lhankarma
- Kushan Empire
- Madhyamaka
- Oddiyana
- Valabhi University
Indian Buddhist missionaries
- Ashoka
- Bodhidharma
- Bodhiruci
- Bodhisena
- Dharmakṣema
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- Dharmaratna
- Dhṛṭaka
- Guṇabhadra
- Huili (monk)
- Jnanayasas
- Kasyapa Matanga
- Lokaksema (Buddhist monk)
- Mahadharmaraksita
- Majjhantika
- Marananta
- Nagasena
- Nateshwar Deul
- Padmasambhava
- Vajrabodhi
- Virūpa
- Śubhakarasiṃha
- Śāriputra (15th-century)
Indian Buddhist monarchs
- Ajatashatru
- Ashoka
- Bimbisara
- Brihadratha Maurya
- Dasharatha Maurya
- Devapala of Bengal
- Dharmapala of Bengal
- Gopala I
- Harsha
- Kalinga II
- Kanishka
- Mahendrapala
- Mahipala II
- Menander I
- Pala Invasion of Kannauj
- Pasenadi
- Shurapala II
- Suchandra
- Udayin
- Vigrahapala III
- Śuddhodana
Indian pacifists
- Arundhati Roy
- Ashoka
- Jayaprakash Narayan
- K. E. Mammen
- Kasturba Gandhi
- Krishnammal Jagannathan
- Mahadev Desai
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mother Teresa
- Narayan Desai
- Ramjee Singh
- Ravishankar Vyas
- Satish Kumar
- Thakur Ramapati Singh
- Thiruvalluvar
- Vandana Shiva
Indian warriors
- Akbar
- Alauddin Khalji
- Amar Singh Rathore
- Aromal Chekavar
- Ashoka
- Bakht Singh of Marwar
- Bakshi Jagabandhu
- Banda Singh Bahadur
- Bhagwant Rai Khichi
- Bhamashah
- Chandu Chekavar
- Chekavar
- Chempil Arayan
- Chhatrasal
- Cleophis
- Dhondia Wagh
- Durgadas Rathore
- Gulam
- Hubbashika
- Kalyatanda Ponnappa
- Kannanda Doddayya
- Kappe Arabhatta
- Khemirao Sarnaik
- Kuroji Naik
- Kuroolli Chekon
- Lakho Phulani
- Madhab Chandra Routray
- Madivala Machideva
- Medini Rai
- Mian Ghaus Khan
- Neelasothaiyan
- Pindiki Bahubalendra
- Ranjit Singh
- Sadaivarna Pandiyan
- Shashigupta
- Shivaji
- Siddi Masud
- Sidhnak Mahar Inamdar
- Sophagasenus
- Tanaji Malusare
- Thacholi Chandu
- Tipu Sultan
- Venkoji (Koli chief)
- Yogendra Singh Yadav
- Zain Khan Sirhindi
Mauryan emperors
- Ashoka
- Bindusara
- Brihadratha Maurya
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Dasharatha Maurya
- Devavarman (Maurya)
- List of Maurya emperors
- Samprati
- Shalishuka
- Shatadhanvan
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka
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