…the river Ganges was flooding and the capital city of pataliputra was in danger of being flooded and the King whose name was Ashoka went down to the Riverside and to look at this rising river and the whole city was there. Here were the brahmins, the…

…were not great and there were traffic back and forth. There were delegations from kushana, India to Rome and vice versa, Ashoka in the third century BC the Great Buddhist Monarch of India sent missionaries to Alexandria and when you realize that Alexandria…

…a d and that's the Buddhism that passed into china and Japan, Whereas the earlier Buddhism had already gone to sri lanka at the time of Ashoka in the third century b c and so you find in sri lanka and in Thailand and I don't know how it is now in…

…were not great and there were traffic back and forth there were delegations from kushana, India to Rome and vice versa, Ashoka. In the third century BC the Great Buddhist Monarch of India sent missionaries to Alexandria and when you realize that Alexandria…

…pile up and with a roar, start back upstream. Well everybody's excited who did it? Who did it? And the King himself the emperor, Ashoka well they say: bindumati, what do you know? So he goes down the line and he approaches her and the text now has…

…women, and so there takes place a very strong Greek influence, and the most important figure to derive from this in India was Ashoka. His dates are the middle of the third century BC around 350 BC. Ashoka was the first emperor to become a Buddhist. It's…

…important figure to derive from this in India was Ashoka. His dates are the middle of the third century BC around 350 BC. Ashoka was the first emperor to become a Buddhist. It's thought he may have been a Jain before that but he becomes a Buddhist.…

…Look what it includes here's the whole world of the near east. Alexander Alexander had gone through to India India. King Ashoka, the Great Buddhist King of the 3rd century BC sent missionaries, Buddhist Missionaries to Cyprus, to Macedon, to Alexandria in…

…women. And so there takes place a very strong Greek influence and the most important figure to derive from this in India was Ashoka. His dates are the middle of the third century BC, around 350 BC. Ashoka was the first emperor to become a Buddhist. It's…

…important figure to derive from this in India was Ashoka. His dates are the middle of the third century BC, around 350 BC. Ashoka was the first emperor to become a Buddhist. It's thought he may have been a Jain before that but he becomes a Buddhist.…