Question
Download Solution PDFRock-cut Elephant at Dhauli was made during the reign of
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Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Ashoka.
- Rock-cut Elephant at Dhauli was created during Ashoka's reign (272-231 BC). Hence option 2 is correct.
Important Points
- Dhauli is located in the ancient territory of Kalinga, now the state of Orissa, which the emperor Ashoka Maurya (reigned 272-231 BC) conquered with an appalling loss of life in about 260 BC.
- Thereafter Ashoka repented of the violence which he had done and converted to Buddhism.
- He expressed his remorse, and his intention to govern the kingdom according to the principles of his new faith, in a series of rock-cut edicts that he ordered to be inscribed on over a 100 monuments throughout his vast kingdom.
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