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OFFICIAL STATUS IN YOUTUBE

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Contribution to Indian Art and Culture

Ashoka’s 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 Ashoka’s 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 androyal 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