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The Mauryan Empire being the first ever sub-continent empire have greatly attracted the Scholars attention on its aspects,from its rising to the decline of the Mauryan Empire. There is something almost dramatic in the way that the empire had decline after the dead of Ashoka , thus the decline was completed within half a century after the dead of Ashoka. The reasons given by historians and scholars were as conflicting as they were confusing .  Some of the causes for the decline of Mauryan empire were; Partition of the Mauryan Empire:  One of the major reason for the downfall of Mauryan Empire was the partition the had took place after the dead of Ashoka. The Empire was divided into two halves i.e. The Eastern and Western parts. Weakness of the King: After Ashoka had completly disrupted the Mauryan Administration the weeknesses of the kings were observed. The weekness of these kings can be imagined from the factual point that only Six(6) rulers could rule only 52 Ye...

                                   -BY Richard Stoney    "First of all a great thanks to our philologist Mr. Richard Stoney for letting us build up a post of his great study art for a betterment for all of us,hope you make a great knowledge out of it. Once again, THANKS  A LOT" The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate the relationship between Sanskrit and English. To simplify matters, I will be using root-words and words in their purer forms. There will be no need to demonstrate every inflected form of a word. Words placed in parentheses are those English words derived from Sanskrit. Sometimes, there will be mention of words from other intermediary languages, serving as a demonstration of changes in spelling and pronunciation. Symbols used: "derived from" "resulting in" (a related word) Note: In Sanskrit and classical Latin, v is sometimes pronounced as w, whil...

Sanskrit is a language which is mother of all languages. Sanskrit, S-a-n-s-k-r-i-t, Sanskrit language. So this is the original language of this..., not only of this planet. In other planets also, this language is spoken. Many people in India are familiar with the Indiana Jones of the famous Hollywood series, but not with Sir William Jones, who lived in India for 11 years from 1783 and introduced to Europe the antiquity and true merits of Indian literature, languages, history and culture. He originally went to India to work as a supreme Court Judge in Calcutta. Proficient in many European and Asian languages from an early age, he developed an interest in the study of Indian culture and civilization. He found an outlet to his enlightened interests in the form of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta, which he established in 1784, with the support of his friends and colleagues. During this period, he made an exhaustive study of Indian history and literat...