The Later Mauryas: 232 BC to 180 BC

Asoka is one of the greatest, if not the greatest monarch in history, but the last days of Asoka and the fall of the Empire are shrouded in pitch darkness that Prof. Nilakanti Sastri says: An impenetrable obscurity settles on the Maurya Empire after Asoka¦A continuous history of the Maurya Empire after Asoka, in the present state of our knowledge is out of the question. This is the first monograph that illuminates the darkest period of 52 years after the death of Asoka.