HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Hinduism
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Buddhism
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Jainism
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Judaism
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to legend, King Ashoka, who was the first king to embrace Buddhism (he ruled over most of the Indian subcontinent from c. 269-232 B.C.E.), created 84, 000 stupas and divided the Buddha’s ashes among them all.
Detailed explanation-2: -Buddha’s remains, before Ashoka’s reign, had been placed in eight stupas (tumuli containing relics) around the country. Ashoka had the relics removed and is said to have decreed the construction of 84, 000 stupas throughout the country, each to have some part of the Buddha’s remains inside.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Great Stupa at Sanchi is one of the oldest stone structures in India, and an important monument of Indian Architecture. It was originally commissioned by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka the Great in the 3rd century BCE. Its nucleus was a simple hemispherical brick structure built over the relics of the Buddha.