ABSTRACT
The death of Alexander the Great marks an epoch in the history of the ancient world. In India, too, a new epoch begins at this time. The great political fact of this new epoch is that the whole of Northern India was for the first time united into one great empire by the genius of Chandragupta. The great religious fact of this new epoch is that the religion of Gautama Buddha, which was making progress among the humble and the lowly, was embraced by Chandragupta’s grandson, the renowned Asoka the Great, and was preached and proclaimed all over India, and beyond the limits of India.
