Mauryan proselytizing Buddhism and the Roman world

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ashoka ascended throne of india around 270 bc. after conversion buddhism dispatched missionaries 4 points of compass. archeological finds indicate these missions had been favorably received in lands west.


ptolemy ii philadelphus, 1 of monarchs ashoka mentions in edicts, recorded pliny elder having sent ambassador named dionysius mauryan court @ pataliputra: india has been treated of several other greek writers resided @ courts of indian kings, such, instance, megasthenes, , dionysius, sent thither philadelphus, expressly purpose: of whom have enlarged upon power , vast resources of these nations.


records alexandria, long crossroads of commerce , ideas, indicate itinerant monks indian subcontinent may have influenced philosophical currents of time. roman accounts centuries later speak of monks traveling middle east, , there mention of embassy sent indian king pandion, or porus (possibly pandya), caesar augustus around 13 ad (see pandion embassy section above).








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