Write additional edicts that Ashoka may have written in ... 5-12 Evaluate the achievements of the emperor Ashoka and assess his contribution to the expansion of Buddhism in India.

To advance this principle, Ashoka had edicts based on the dharma carved on ... In 185 BCE, Pushyamitra Shunga, a general, assassinated the last king of the Mauryan dynasty, Brihadratha.

and our fragment is from what's known as the "sixth pillar edict"; it declares the Emperor Ashoka's benevolent policy towards every sect and every class in his empire: "I consider how I may bring ...

Emperor Ashoka, also known as Ashoka the Great ... and his promotion of peace and religious tolerance. Ashoka's rock edicts and policies focused on social welfare, moral conduct, and the spread ...