. Indian historical studies . Capital of an Asoka Pillar. Sarnath. {Photo by the Archicologlcal Survey of India.) [To face page 27. ASOKA MAURYA 27 to bis court the famous doctor Upagupta, and badebim expound to bim the tenets of bis religion. Tbeeffect was magical; Asoka was converted to Buddbism,took minor orders in tbe Cburcb, and set himself,with all tbe ardour of tbe convert, to remodel hiskingdom upon the precepts of the Dbarma. In nocountry in tbe world, perhaps, except India, couldsuch an experiment have had any chance of peculiar temperament of tbe people, togetherwith tbe
. Indian historical studies . Capital of an Asoka Pillar. Sarnath. {Photo by the Archicologlcal Survey of India.) [To face page 27. ASOKA MAURYA 27 to bis court the famous doctor Upagupta, and badebim expound to bim the tenets of bis religion. Tbeeffect was magical; Asoka was converted to Buddbism,took minor orders in tbe Cburcb, and set himself,with all tbe ardour of tbe convert, to remodel hiskingdom upon the precepts of the Dbarma. In nocountry in tbe world, perhaps, except India, couldsuch an experiment have had any chance of peculiar temperament of tbe people, togetherwith tbe admirable administrative system whichAsoka had inherited from bis grandfather, aloneenabled him to carry into effect his Utopian , tbe details of this great experiment havenot been lost in the oblivion which has swallowed upso much of tbe early history of India; the Emperorsinjunctions, regulations, and homilies were recordedin edicts which were issued from time to time andwere inscribed upon rocks, or pill
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