The Turning Point of Indian History The field of Kalinga was soaked in blood. Bodies lay strewn, families were destroyed, and ...

India’s history stretches back millennia, with cities, temples, and archaeological sites that have stood the test of time.

The Lord Buddha was born in 623 BC in the sacred area of Lumbini located in the Terai plains of southern Nepal, testified by the inscription on the pillar erected by the Mauryan Emperor Asoka in 249 ...

Advertisements Asif  Kapadia’s  The Warrior was a masterpiece  that didn’t  define any  specific period  of time in history. And though it traversed an epic territory  subsuming the  parched sands  of ...

Sarnath is home to the Dhamek Stupa, built by Emperor Ashoka, and a well-maintained archaeological museum housing ancient relics, including the famous Lion Capital of Ashoka, India’s national emblem.

The peepal tree was revered by the Buddhists as Mahabodhi. In 3rd century BC Mauryan emperor Asoka the Great visited the place and created the diamond seat of the Buddha beneath the Mahabodhi tree ...

It also includes Dharma Chakra at the centre, depicting the "wheel of the law" in the Sarnath Lion Capital made by the third-century BC Mauryan Emperor Ashoka. How to use the flag in social media ...

Though on the periphery of the Mauryan Empire during Emperor Ashoka’s reign, the region, then known as Dhanyakataka, remained culturally vibrant. Buddhist tradition holds that Gautama Buddha visited ...