HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
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Why can Asoka’s history be described as “written in stone”?
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Because most of what we know about him and his rule comes from the stone age.
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Because most of what we know about him comes from his best friend’s cousin’s sister’s little cousin Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
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Because most of what we know about him and his rule comes from the edicts carved on pillars, rocks, and walls across his empire.
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Because he beat up people with his hands that were considered to be made of stone.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The inscriptions were composed in the Prakrit language (in Magadhi, the dialect of Prakrit in Magadha) and written in Brahmi script throughout the greater part of the empire.
Detailed explanation-2: -Through a series of edicts carved in stone and placed throughout the empire, Ashoka proclaimed to his people the importance of Buddhist values and his beliefs about how his people should act.
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