Ashoka in Ancient India / / Nayanjot Lahiri.
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 boun...
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Lahiri, Nayanjot, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Ashoka in Ancient India / Nayanjot Lahiri. Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (408 p.) : 7 color illustrations, 38 halftones, 3 maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 bounds of his lifetime and dominion. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674915237 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674915237 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674915237/original |
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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 |
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