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Ashoka in Ancient India /
In the third century BCE Ashoka ruled in South Asia and Afghanistan, and came to be seen as the ideal Buddhist king. Disentangling the threads of Ashoka's life from the knot of legend that surrounds it, Nayanjot Lahiri presents a vivid biography of an emperor whose legacy extends far beyond the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2015]
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| Edición: | Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Prelude
- 1. An Apocryphal Early Life
- 2. Pataliputra and the Prince
- 3. Mauryan Taxila
- 4. Affairs of the Heart and State
- 5. The End and the Beginning
- 6. The Emperor's Voice
- 7. Extending the Arc of Communication to Afghanistan
- 8. An Expansive Imperial Articulation
- 9. The Message in the Landscape
- 10. Building Beliefs into Edifices
- 11. An Ageing Emperor's Interventions
- 12 Of Wifely Woes and the Emperor's Death
- Epilogue: The Emperor's Afterlife
- Appendix: The Inscriptions of Ashoka
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index