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348 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA against the Yavana menace. She got a dreamer. Magadha after the Kalinga War frittered away her conquering energy in attempting a religious revolution, as Egypt did under the guidance of Ikhnaton. The result was politically disastrous-as will be shown in the next section. Aśoka's attempt to end war met with the same fate as the similar endeavour of President Wilson.
According to Dr. Smith's chronology Aśoka died in 232 B.C., after a reign of about 40 years. A Tibetan tradition is said to affirm that the great Emperor breathed his last at Taxila."
1 The Oxford History of India, p. 116. I cannot vouch for the authenticity of this tradition.
