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Posted on: 9 September 2010
Digital Book :
JAINISM or THE Early Faith of ASOKA : With illustrations of the ancient religions of the East, from the pantheon of the Indo-Scythians ; to which is prefixed a notice on Bactrian coins and Indian dates.
By Edward Thomas
Published by Trubner & Co., London - 1877
Read Book Online : http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924022953529#page/n5/mode/2up
Download pdf Book : http://ia341311.us.archive.org/1/items/cu31924022953529/cu31924022953529.pdf
This is what I was searching for...Thanks for posting this.... Would love to see something from VIKRAMADITYA,CHANDRAGUPTA period ...
When did Asoka embrace Jainism? We have learnt that Asoka was converted to Buddhism by one Upagupta Acharya after the infamous Kalinga War and after that he did a lot of missionary work for Buddhism. To my knowledge the Maurya King who embraced Jainism after living lifelong under the tutelage of Acharya Chanakya and perhaps following Vedic Religion and then embraced Jainism at the end of his life and his memorial is supposed to be there in Karnataka...