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Memorials to Ashoka

  • Maya Devi Temple, LumbiniQueen Maya of the Koliya kingdom stood beneath a Sal tree in 623 BC. She was traveling to her father's home when labor began near Lumbini.
  • Edicts of AshokaIn the year 260 BCE, a stone slab stood in Old Kandahar, modern Afghanistan. It bore words in Greek and Aramaic. These were not random carvings but official…