Revisiting Asoka- III: Ashoka The Terrible
[contextly_sidebar id=”9fNbdtifJBTRSuJJyFO8QXdx2e2Cla2v”] Though Bindusara’s ministers had preferred Ashoka to Sushima and helped him to come to power, they did not hold him in high regard and were More...
Revisiting Ashoka-II: Ashoka’s Rise To Power
[contextly_sidebar id=”698SYlgAUt1bn3LtrT7kEfu53XbGK1z7″] Our story begins in the city of Champa (Champaran), where a Brahmin named Pilindavatsa (also called Janasana) had a very beautiful daughter, More...
A critical look at identification of Aśoka with Devānāmpriya of major rock edicts
[contextly_sidebar id=”fv4sa8EejJWWpe5YPp7ZccBNNiNO4nH2″] In my previous article, I provided evidence that Sandrokottos of Greek accounts should be identified with Chandragupta-I of Imperial Gupta dynasty More...
Who was Sandrokottos? Chandragupta Maurya or Chandragupta-I of Imperial Gupta Dynasty?
[contextly_sidebar id=”Cw0UniwWmGT9cWfWIIPQwhAPjtxwu0Oz”] In my previous articles “Flawed Sheet Anchors of Indian History” and “Force-fitting of evidence in the making of Indian History”, I described More...
Flawed Sheet Anchors of Indian History
The chronology of Indian history rests on two sheet anchors. The first sheet anchor is the identification of Sandrokottos of the Greek accounts with Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Mauryan Dynasty. Sandrokottos More...
Acharya Chanakya’s approach to knowledge
Introduction The wise Viṣṇugupta Cāṇakya, also known as Kauṭilya, who propelled the Mauryan Chandragupta to meteoric heights, while uprooting the tree of the wicked Nanda-s and cleansing the taint of the More...
The Arthashastra and the welfare state
As a new Gregorian year begins, it is appropriate to revisit the concept of a welfare state in the Sanskrit canon. The state had its obligations to the broader population. The public welfare was the measure by which More...