
Beloved of the Gods: Ashoka Maurya in His Time and Ours
Echoes Of India: A History Podcast
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Introduction
Traveller lands on the shore of a lake in northern India. He is greeted by an old friend who asks him what he wants to know. The traveller explains that they have been dropped out of the sky and landed next to a monument, near where Ashoka's scribbles were cut into the rock. They are at the seven mounds, near where 'the grumpy doom from north india had those scribbles cut into therock'
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