Watch to understand how Ashoka the Great, the Indian emperor of the Maurya dynasty, who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE and promoted the spread of Buddhism across ancient Asia helmed the rise of the Mauryan dynasty.

Watch to understand how Ashoka the Great, the Indian emperor of the Maurya dynasty, who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE and promoted the spread of Buddhism across ancient Asia helmed the rise of the Mauryan dynasty.