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The task was left to Bindusara’s heir Ashoka (269–232 b.c. ), admired by Indians as their greatest ruler, perhaps for his special combination of tough authoritarianism and a high sense of moral righteousness.
The road from Kathmandu to Patan passes an Ashoka stupa (one of four in Patan) and brings you to Jawalakhel and the Tibetan Cooperative.
Famous inscriptions on rocks and pillars everywhere bore testimony to Ashoka’s reign.
Marking the spot is a pillar commemorating the visit in 250 b.c. of the Indian emperor Ashoka, a zealous convert to Buddhism.
To oversee this mass conversion, Ashoka turned the Brahmanic concept of dharma (righteousness) into an instrument of public policy, enforced by the Officers of Righteousness he had appointed for this purpose.