Reference question (Was: Filliozat)

[Edwin F Bryant]

That Ashoka was Chandragupta Maurya's grandson can be verified from any
basic history book on ancient India (ie. Romila Thappar's "HIstory of
India", vol 1 pp. 71-72).   Edwin Bryant.


On Wed, 15 May 1996, Das Menon wrote:

> I was under the impression that Chandragupta Maurya's grandson was the
> Vikramaditya Maurya, also sometimes referred to as Chandragupta
> Vikramaditya. May someone more knowledgable in the list can comment.
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> Regards....Devadas
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> At 02:15 AM 5/15/96 BST, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 9 May 1996, Vidyasankar Sundaresan wrote
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> >3rd cent. BCE. These would seem to anchor the date of Ashoka. Chandragupta
> >Maurya is the grandfather of Ashoka, so he cannot be moved far temporally 
> >from the above date (The Puranas would situate him in the 15th cent BCE).
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