King Asoka and Buddhism - Urban Dharma

3 rd ed. rev. (New Delhi: Government of India,Publications Division, Ministry of Information andBroadcasting, 1975). On the assumption that most readersof this paper will not have ready access to texts or translationsof Aśoka’s inscriptions and edicts, extensive quotationsare reproduced as found appropriate. Wheneverrequired, comparisons are made with the original textsof edicts and inscriptions as presented by D.C. Sircarwith Sanskritized versions in his Select Inscriptions Bearingon Indian History and Civilization, Vol. I (Universityof Calcutta, 1942), as well as with the texts of edicts inNalinaksha Dutt and Krishna Datta Bajpai, Developmentof Buddhism in Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow: Government ofUttar Pradesh Publications Bureau, 1956).6. This extract is from a fragmentary inscription in Greekpresenting a condensed adaptation of RE XII and RE XIII.It was found at Kandahar in 1963.7. Apart from such pioneers as Prinsep, Cunningham,Bühler, Senart and Hultzch and Bloch, whose contributionwas mainly in exploring or deciphering and interpretingthe archaeological and epigraphical data onAśoka, many scholars have produced monographs. Thefollowing are particularly helpful in assessing the developmentof Aśokan studies: Vincent A. Smith, Aśoka, 3 rded. (Oxford, 1920); Jean Przyluski, La Legende l’EmpereurAśoka (Paris, 1923); James M. Macphail, Aśoka, rev. ed.,The Heritage of India Series (Calcutta: YMCA, 1951);D.R. Bhandarkar, Aśoka, 3 rd ed. (Calcutta, 1955); RadhaKumud Mookerjee, Aśoka, 3 rd ed. (Delhi, 1955); AmulyachandraSen, Aśoka’s Edicts (Delhi, 1956); and Romila85