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- Ashoka 273-232 BCE Under the reign of Ashoka Buddhism spread to Syria, Egypt, Macedonia, Central Asia, Burma. For propagation of Buddhism, he inscribed edicts on rocks and pillars at places where people could easily read them. These pillars and rocks are still found in India, spreading their message of love and peace for the last two thousand years. The national emblem of India is the Ashoka pillar at Sarnath, and the "Dharma Chakra" on that Pillar adorns the Indian flag.
- Mauryan Empire, Ashoka and the Defeat of Alexander the Great History of the great Buddhist king Ashoka, and his grandfather, Chandragupta, who defeated Alexander the Great.
- Alexander the Great Argues that an Asokan Pillar at Delhi is an altar of Alexander and that an Indian conspiracy assassinated him.
- Decline and Fall of Buddhism in India An account of the fall of the Buddhist kings, the resurgance of Hinduism and the entry of Islam to India.
- The Edicts of King Asoka The great Buddhist King Asoka's edicts are to be found scattered in more than thirty places throughout India, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Most of them are written in Brahmi script, but one in Afghanistan is written in Aramaic and Greek. Asoka's edicts comprise the earliest decipherable corpus of written documents from India.
- Ashoka's Edicts Asoka, an exceptionally cruel and ruthless prince who had many of his brothers killed in order to seize the throne, was dramatically converted to Buddhism and who ruled wisely and justly for the rest of his life. Historians did not take the legands about him to be true, until Ashoka's edicts were found and deciphered by archeologists. These are translations of these archeological findings.
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