HIST 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dharma, Third Buddhist Council, Economic Restructuring
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Lecture 6: achaemind empire (c. 550-c. 330 bce: ale(cid:454)a(cid:374)de(cid:396)(cid:859)s (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:395)uest of the a(cid:272)hae(cid:373)i(cid:374)d powe(cid:396) Mauryan empire (321-185 bce: chandragupta (321-297 bce, bi(cid:374)dus (cid:396)a (297-272 bce, a oka (272-232 bce) Mauryan kings: chandragupta maurya (321-297) prot g of chanakya, a brahman, also known as. Jain abdicates throne and undertakes sallekhana: ousts the nanda dynasty from pataliputra, magadha, bindusara (297-272) ajivika, ashoka (268-231) buddhist. Becomes extremely important and popular to the nationalists and 20th century india because: Indika of megasthenes: arthashastra of kautalya (probably gupta period, monumental architecture (early stupas) Physical evidence of the technology of writing was widespread. Was ashoka a buddhist: (cid:862)la(cid:455)-followe(cid:396) of the buddhist faith(cid:863, addresses the sangha no tolerance of heresy, stresses non-violence, remorse for slaughter at kalinga, the inscriptions show no evidence of buddhism and is written very generically. Imperial ethos (cid:858)dhamma(cid:859) (cid:894)prakrit form of sanskrit te(cid:396)(cid:373) (cid:858)dharma(cid:859): offi(cid:272)ials (cid:894)dha(cid:373)(cid:373)a (cid:373)ah (cid:373) t(cid:396)as(cid:895) ordered to propagate dhamma, further conquests by dhamma, not violence.
