Development of Hinduism

Author(s): M M Ninan
Publisher: M M Ninan

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Indus
Taxila (Takṣasilä) Gandhara Kekeya Sakala
-Beas
Kamboja
RANN OF KACHCHH
Arabian Sea
Achaemenid Empire Sutlej
Kurung Ghaghara GREAT
HIMALAYA
Indraprastha
Chenab Hastinapura Ahichhattra RANGE Brahmaputra Sakya Kapilavastu Indus GREAT Matsya Videha INDIAN Sürasena Pancala Sravasti Vrjji DESERT Mathura Ganges Malla Vaisali Käsi Käsi Magadha
Narmada
Kosala
Vatsa Kausāmbi Cedi
Ujjayini (Ujjain). Avanti
Vidarbha
Bhoja DECCAN
Godavari Kalinga
Andhra
PLATEAU
Kāveri
3. TIME LINE
PLATEAU OF TIBET
Sinhala
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Campa Rajagrha Anga
Bay of Bengal
Indus
Shahbazgarhi Mansehra
Purusapura
Arachosia Chenab
KAIM-TTIN
STATIC TE RISPATOY
TEZAK ZOTE
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Taxila (Takṣasilä) Gandhara
Beas
Indus
GREAT INDIAN Bairst DESERT
Girnar
Kälst- GREAT Topra HIMALAYA Brahmaputra Sutlej Kapilavastu RANGE Meerut Ganges Indraprastha Sravasti Mathura Niglivä Rummindel Yamuna Prayaga, Gujarra Rūpnäth (Ujjain). Saurästra
Rampurya Lauriya Nandangarh Lauriya Araraj Kasi Pataliputra Campa
Sanch
RANN OF
KACHCHH Ujjayini
Sopara
Arabian Sea
Bharukaccha
Sasarām
Magadha Narmada Pulinda Tosali (Dhauli) Jaugada
Andhra
Gavimath •Rajula Mandagiri PälkigunduYerragudi Brahmagiri Siddhapura
Kāñci
Kaveri
RZE
200 400 mi
200 400 600 km
ALIZ
DECCAN
Godavari Kalinga
PLATEAU
Mäski
Sites of Aśokan rock and pillar edicts Probable boundary of Asoka's Empire
Sarnath A
Cola
Pandya
Céra
Sinhala
Asoka's Edicts
Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, has caused this Dhamma edict to be written http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=1601&rendTypeId=4
PRAKRIT AND PALI 1000 BC - 500 BC
Brajbuli dates to 1000 BC
Pali is Magadhi, Magadhanirutti, Magadhikabhasa, that is to say, the language of the region in which Buddhism had arisen.
The earliest recorded Prakrit is in Asoka's Inscriptions 500 BC
Tamralipta
Greek and Aramaic translation of an edict by Asoka. Khandahar
Bay of Bengal