Indian Religions Podcast
Yale University Press

Yale University Press

Ashoka

Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King (Yale UP, 2024) is the first biography of the great Emperor Ashoka relying solely on his own words. Ashoka sought not only to rule his territory but also to give it a unity of purpose and aspiration, to unify the people of his vastly heterogeneous empire not by a cult of personality but by the cult of an …

Guest: Patrick OlivelleDate: 4/4/2024Publisher: Yale University Press