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...

Reconstructing The History Of The Ājīvikas

[contextly_sidebar id=”9ESt2LWLO1vg0xiGMne81qYY36gAmpVD”] In my previous articles “A new dating of Mahāvīra based on Mālava era” and “A new dating of Buddha based on the evidence of Sumatitantra”, More...

Force-fitting of evidence in the making of Indian History

[contextly_sidebar id=”MeQgZsKrCgseToJ6312PIMIko2A4BSGL”] In the previous article, “Flawed Sheet Anchors of Indian History”, I discussed the implications of shifting the reign of the Imperial Guptas More...

Ashoka And Pushyamitra Sunga: A Study In Mythmaking

Let us elaborate one example of pro-Buddhist bias in modern indologist scholarship. It has to do with a story of alleged Hindu persecution of Buddhism by Pushyamitra, a general in the service of the declining Maurya More...