Two Inscriptions of Chandragupta Maurya

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Dear Members,

 

The Mahasthan inscription, which speaks of a Bengal famine, stands

alone and is probably a fake, inscribed by someone like Dr. A. A.

Fuhrer.

 

I had written that Southeast Iran was India even during the time of

Alexander the Great and that it is in this India and Punjab that one

can expect to find evidence for Chandragupta. Here is more.

 

In my opinion the two Aramaic inscriptions found at Laghman,

Afghanistan, which are attributed to Ashoka, actually belong to

Chandragupta. As H. C. Raychaudhuri stressed, the epithet

Priyadarshi was used both by Asoka and Chandragupta. D.C. Sircar

also did not agree that the inscriptions belong to Asoka. The

clinching evidence is that Vakshu in the inscriptions is clearly

Oxyartes (see Tarn, GBI, p. 101 ) who was a contemporary of

Chandragupta, not Ashoka.

 

Regards

 

Dr. Ranajit Pal