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Contribution to Indian Art and Culture

Ashokas inscriptions:
Important very reliable source
Scattered almost throughout India

Language prakrit
Script Brahmi >> derived from Indus script
Began to issue edicts 12 yrs after his coronation (269 12 = 257 BC)

Came to know that pali and sanskrit were popular languages of masses
Pali spoken by people
Sanskrit language of literature

Languages of masses
Pali
Sanskrit

Rock edicts
Pillar edicts

Cave inscriptions

14 rock edicts
Minor rock edicts

Expain Ashokas principles of govt and ethical system 257 BC

Minor Rock edicts - probable date of edicts 257 BC
Pillar edicts are divided into - Minor Pillar edicts and Pillar inscriptions 249-243BC

4 cave inscriptions - 257 -250 BC

 Prime Minister of Chandragupta maurya

Date and authorship controversy
Politics state envisaged by Kautilya was totalitarian
15 books 150 chapters
Form of Sutra and Bhashya
Deals machinery of government, civil and
criminal law, inter state law of diplomacy and war
Good source for Mauryan period

 3rd century BC most valuable

Megasthanes Greek ambassador of Seleucus to the court
of Chandragupta Maurya
Stayed at the capital of Mauryas @ Pataliputra
Travelled throughout the country
what he saw, felt and heard recorded in Indica
Preserved in the form of fragments
Describes Pataliputra as the longest city in India
States it was situated in the land of Presii
Most interesting part - relating to contemporary Indian Society
Beautiful description of royal palace, palace gardens, king and
royal ceremonies

 Establishment of greek kingdom @ western Asia >>

Greeks and Indians came into contact visits of

learned men and scholars >> cultural outlook
Kanishaka (Kushan) invited Greco Bactrian sculptors
to Gandhara for making fig of Lord Buddha and
Bodhisatvas >> Mingled Greek & Indian Art > gave
birth to Gandhara school of art
Indian astrology & astronomy influenced by Hellenic
system Greeks learnt science, art, philosophy,
mathematics, medicine from India