Rock and Pillar Edicts of Asoka

Further Reading

Articles

• Mehta, Gita. “Ashoka, Beloved of the Gods.” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review 8, no. 2 (Winter 1998): 21–25.
• Sugandhi, Namita. “Context, Content, and Composition: Questions of Intended Meaning and the Asokan Edicts.” Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific 42, no. 2 (2003): 224–246.

Books

• Ahir, D. C. Asoka the Great. Delhi: B. R. Publishing, 1995.
• Bhandarkar, D. R. Asoka. 4th ed. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1969.
• Embree, Ainslie T, ed. “Ashokan Edicts.” In Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 1: From the Beginning to 1800. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
• Falk, Harry. Asokan Sites and Artefacts: A Source-Book with Bibliography. Mainz, Germany: Philipp von Zabern, 2006.
• Gokhale, Balkrishna G. Asoka Maurya. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1966.
• Guruge, Ananda W. P. Asoka, the Righteous: A Definitive Biography. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Information, 1993.
• Majumdar, R. C., ed. The History and Culture of the Indian People, Vol. 2: The Age of Imperial Unity. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1989.
• Mukherjee, Bratindra N. The Character of the Maurya Empire. Calcutta: Progressive Publishers, 2000.
• Sen, Amulyachandra. Asoka's Edicts. Calcutta: Indian Publicity Society, 1956.
• Strong, John. S. The Legend of King Asoka: A Study and Translation of the Asokavadana. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983.
• Thapar, Romila. Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1961.
• ———. Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003.
• ———. The Mauryas Revisited. Calcutta: K. P. Bagchi, 1987.