Aśoka’s policy of Dharma edict
The major factors influence to Aśoka’s policy of Dharma edict The great king Aśoka succeeded to the Mauryan authority in India around 269 BCE. His kingdom overextended from Afghanistan to Bangladesh and Afghanistan to South India. He is the most one great kings of ancient India for his policies of public welfare and his policies of Dharma (Verma, Avnindra Kumar, retrieved 30 August 2013). This essay will focus on three significant factors influence Aśoka’s policy of Dharma because of Aśoka is the Buddhist, following the teaching of Buddha in the Aśoka’s edict, and the political issues in the kingdom. The terms of Dharma have multiple meanings in the literature and thought of ancient India. The best way deeply studies in his edicts for comprehensive what Aśoka means “Dharma”, which writes to explain the significance of Dharma to the people of that time (Romila Thapar, 2004). Dharma might be not only a particular religious faith or practice, or an uninformed roya...