Ashoka in Ancient India de Lahiri, Nayanjot - 2015-08-05

Cambridge: Harvard Univ.press, 2015. 385, photos and illustrations. Photos on request. First Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian subcontinent, and future generations of Asians came to see him 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 this extraordinary Indian emperor and deepens our understanding of a legacy that extends beyond the bounds of Ashoka's lifetime and dominion. At the center of Lahiri's account is the complex personality of the Maurya dynasty's third emperor?a strikingly contemplative monarch, at once ambitious and humane, who introduced a unique style of benevolent governance. Ashoka's edicts, carved into rock faces and stone pillars, reveal an eloquent ruler who, unusually for the… Leer más

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Harvard Univ Pr, 2015. Hardcover. New. 406 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.25 inches.