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FROM INDUS TO INDEPENDENCE: A TREK THROUGH INDIAN HISTORY: Part 11
April 27, 2013 
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Canberra, 27 April 2013 THE GLORY OF THE MAURYAS Section II Ashoka the Great (269-232 BC) (aka ‘Devanampriya Piyadassi’ – The Beloved of the Gods) The Mauryan capital of Pataliputra has been described by Megasthenes as well as by other Greek sources. It stood at the junction of the rivers Ganges and Son-Hiranyabahu (Erranoboas in […]
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