King Asoka and Buddhism - Urban Dharma

the other peoples dwelling about the western borders of my dominions.(Emphasis mine.)It is in RE XIII that we have the most comprehensive accountof Aśoka’s Dharmavijaya, “conquest through Dharma” of foreignlands:So, what is conquest through Dharma is now considered to bethe best conquest by the Beloved of the Gods. And such a conquesthas been achieved by the Beloved of the Gods not onlyhere in his own dominions, but also in the territories bordering on hisdominions, as faraway as at a distance of six hundred yojanas, wherethe Yavana king named Antiyoka is ruling and where beyond the kingdomof the said Antiyoka, four other kings named Turamāya, Antikini,Makā and Alikasundara are also ruling, and towards the southwhere the Choḷas and Pāṇḍyans are living, as far as Tāmraparṇi. Likewisehere in the dominions of His Majesty, the Beloved of theGods — in the countries of the Yavanas and Kāmbojas of the Nābhakasand Nābhapanktis of the Bhoja-paitryānikas and of the Andhras andPaulindas — everywhere people are conforming to the instructionin Dharma imparted by the Beloved of the Gods.Even where the envoys of the Beloved of the Gods have not penetrated,there too men have heard of the practices of Dharma andthe ordinances issued and the instruction in Dharma impartedby the Beloved of the Gods, and are conforming to Dharma andwill continue to conform to it. (Emphasis mine.)RE XIII is also not dated. As the appointment of Dharma-Mahāmātras took place thirteen years after coronation, bothRE V and RE XIII are to be dated at least several years afterthat, because they report substantial progress made by thisnew service. 38RE XIII is of very great significance from the point of viewof chronology. It refers to five Greek kings who were Aśoka’scontemporaries. They have been identified and dated with afair degree of accuracy as follows:73