2011/8/14 Dipak Bhattacharya
<dbhattacharya200498@yahoo.com>
Dear Colleague,
The king states that he has arranged. That is sufficient. Otherwise you
may go on doubting. That is free. One may doubt even if it was the deed
of Asoka and not of a different king named Priyadarsi
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Dear Colleague,
I have no problems with hard facts. One of them is that the king did state. And that he ordered his statements to be engraved on suitable rock surfaces and on pillars. But the relation of the contents of his statements to reality is open to enquiry. Thank you for allowing me to use my freedom and go on doubting. I shall use it, certainly.
Yours, etc.,
Artur Karp
Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit and Pali (ret.)
University of Warsaw,
Poland