Most of the Ashokan Edicts were written in …………… script.

1. Brahmi
2. Kharosthi
3. Aramaic

The last Mauryan ruler was …………… .

1. Ashoka
2. Bindusara
3. Brihadratha

Copy the given table in your notebook and write the similarities that you can observe between the Buddha's teachings and Emperor Ashoka's principles of Dhamma.

Read this statement and answer the questions that follow:

'Emperor Ashoka was greatly inspired by the teachings of the Buddha, therefore, he asked all his subjects to convert to Buddhism through his edicts.'

(a) What is the one assumption that is made in the statement given above?
(b) Explain why this assumption may be incorrect.