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Buddhism: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha

Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas

by Romila Thapar

A classic historical study of Ashoka and the Maurya empire based on the inscriptions and other sources, with translations of the edicts. Thapar interprets Ashoka's Dhamma as a social and political policy as well as a personal ethic.

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