| Script :
Meena
Talim
Illustrator : Ram
Waeerkar
ISBN : 81-7508-119-8
Vol. No: 536
History chronicles innumerable
kings who were brave conquerors and valiant soldiers. But Ashoka stands
above them all because he is the only one who at the zenith of his conquests
saw the futility of violence and had the courage to renounce it. That is
why H.G. Wells in his ‘Short History of the World’ says that Ashoka’s “reign
for eight and twenty years was one of the brightest interludes in the troubled
history of mankind. Wells goes on to say, “Such was Ashoka, the greatest
of kings, He was far in advance of his age”. This volume is based on the
original research of the author into the Mahavamsa, the Dipavamsa, the
commentary on the Mahavamsa and the edicts of Ashoka. Pali manuscripts
and other secondary sources have also been extensively studied in gleaning
facts which should kindle new interest in Ashoka.'
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