Ashoka · Politics
How Ashoka’s dhamma travelled - the missions that carried Buddhism across Asia and to Sri Lanka - and how the emperor himself was utterly forgotten for a thousand years, until James Prinsep deciphered the Brahmi script in 1837 and a lost king rose again to become modern India’s founding symbol.
You learned that Ashoka’s dhamma reached far beyond his borders through his missions (including Mahinda’s to Sri Lanka), that he was forgotten for a thousand years once Brahmi could no longer be read, and that James Prinsep’s 1837 decipherment restored him - making the Lion Capital India’s embl…
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