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Describe the sources to reconstruct the Age of the Mauryas with reference to the following:
Archaeological Sources
Solution
The Rock Edicts of Ashoka are the most reliable sources of information for Ashoka’s rule. The Edicts of Ashoka are a collection of 33 inscriptions’s on the Pillars of Ashoka, made by the emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan dynasty during his reign. These inscriptions are dispersed throughout the areas of modem day India. Nepal and Pakistan and represent the first tangible evidence of Buddhism. The edicts describe in detail. The first wide expansion of Buddhism. The edicts describe in detail. The first wide expansion of Buddhism through the sponsorship of one of the most powerful kings of Indian history.
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