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Radha Kumud MOOKERJI---Asoka. Second Ed. Delhi, 1955.
P. 7. Asoka's younger brother Mahendra alias vitāśoka was beheaded, being taken for one of the Nirgranthas upon whose heads the local king set a price.
P. 13. A denfinite and long-continued tradition describes Chandragupta (Grand father of Asoka) abdicating and retiring as a Jain saint at Sravana Belgola in Southern Mysore, upto which, his dominion must have extended (PLUTARCH : Life of Alexander, Ch. LXII)
P. 31. Asoka's Edicts State “Dignitaries of piety (Dharma Mahāmātras) were appointed over all sects-Ājivikas, Nirgranthas etc, in 257 B.C.
P. 59. Asoka's personal religion, there is a view that it was Jainism.
P. 64. Asoka's toleration-promoting the interest of Brahmanas, Ājivikas and Nirgranthas equally with the Buddhists through the instrumentality of his officers, the Dharma-Mahāmātras.
Pp. 70-71.nl. Jainism mentions 18 kinds of of pāpa and 42 of asrava (STEVENSON--Heart of Jainism), Pp. 302-05) of which three are also mentioned by Asoka (P.E.III). Five kinds of asrava mentioned in Jaina works, Asoka followed the Jain rather than the Buddhist view of asrava. D.R. BHANDAKAR (Asoka, Pp. 129-30) finds a further borrowing of Asoka from Jainism in his use in the Edicts described; Asoka tried to include the sāra of Brahmanism, Buddhism and Jainism in his own Dharma.
P. 84. The uniscribed Asokan Pillar located at the village now called Koluha (from ancient Kollāga) near the ruins of old Vaiśāli. Modern Basarh; this locality was the birth place of Vardhamāna Mahāvira.
P. 100. Among the dissenters (Pashandas) the most prominent in Asoka's time were the Nirgranthas (Jains), and the Ājivikas.
P. 179. n.3. In fixing their Uposatha days, the Buddhists and Jainas took over the Brahmanical usages (cf. Vishņu, LXXI, 87; Manu, IV.I 13-114).
P. 186. Pillar Edict VII-Dharma Mahamätras shall be employed among Brahmanas and Ajivika ascetics among Nirgranthas, too.
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