ABSTRACT
Among the references of religious interest is the statement in Rock-Edict X I I I , that he has won the victory of dhamma (religion) " among all his borderers, even to the extent of six hundred yojanas, where (is) the Yona king Antiyoga [Antiochus II of Syria], and beyond this Antiyoga, (where are ruling) four kings Tulamaya [Ptolemy II of Egypt] , Antekina [Antigonus Gonatas of Macedonia], Maka [Magas of Cyrene], and Alikyashudala [Alexander of Epirus or of Corinth], and likewise to the south the Choda-pamdiya
Scriptures. Much of the Sanskrit story is extant in Divy. It has been dealt with more fully from Chinese sources by J. Przyluski in La Ugende de Vempereur Asoka. The text and translation of the edicts in E. Hultzsch, Inscriptions of Asoka, Oxford, 1925, and also in R. Mookerji's Asoka, London, 1928. D. R. Bhandarkar's Asoka, Calcutta, 1925, also gives translations. Both these books deal ably with the historical problems. V. A. Smith has treated the subject in his Asoka and The early history of India.
