XXVI. The Date of Aśōka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12561583 |
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| Authors | E Hultzsch (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1914 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 943-951 |
| Publication date | 1914-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-1863 • E-ISSN: 1474-0591 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0035869x00047419 |
| OpenAlex | W2137194570 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The fixing of the exact time of the earliest Indian king whose inscriptions havesurvived to our days depends very much on the dates of two contemporaries whom he mentions: Magā or Makā, and Alikasudara or Alikyashudala. The former has been identified long ago with Magas of Cyrene, and the second was either Alexander of Epirus, or, as Professor Beloch thinks, Alexander of Corinth. The fresh dates to which these three rulers are assigned in Beloch's Griechische Geschichte induce me to reconsider the much-discussed question of the period of Aśōka's reign
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| Highly cited | No |
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