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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 2477076, member: 8267&quot;]Thank you for giving me an excuse to do some reading on early Indian empires.</p><p>According to the Wikipedia article that you also cite, &quot;the cultural influence of &quot;Greater Gandhara&quot; extended across the Indus river to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxila" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxila" rel="nofollow">Taxila</a> region and westwards into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul_River" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul_River" rel="nofollow">Kabul</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamiyan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamiyan" rel="nofollow">Bamiyan</a> valleys in Afghanistan, and northwards up to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakoram" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakoram" rel="nofollow">Karakoram</a> range&quot;, not into southern India. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhara" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhara" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhara</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It seems a bit of a stretch to suggest the Maurya Empire spread Gandharan art styles to southern India. The Maurya originated in northeastern India, and at their greatest extent did not reach to the southern tip of the Indian sub-continent, (modern Tamilnadu and Kerala), although the southern states were apparently friendly.</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Maurya_Empire%2C_c.250_BCE_2.png/250px-Maurya_Empire%2C_c.250_BCE_2.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&quot;Maximum extent of the Maurya Empire, as shown by the location of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edicts_of_Ashoka" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edicts_of_Ashoka" rel="nofollow">Ashoka&#039;s inscriptions</a>, and visualized by historians: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Arthur_Smith" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Arthur_Smith" rel="nofollow">Vincent Arthur Smith</a>;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire#cite_note-Smith1920-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire#cite_note-Smith1920-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._C._Majumdar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._C._Majumdar" rel="nofollow">R. C. Majumdar</a>;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire#cite_note-India1950-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire#cite_note-India1950-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> and historical geographer Joseph E.</p><p>Schwartzbert.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire#cite_note-dsal.uchicago.edu-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire#cite_note-dsal.uchicago.edu-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a>&quot;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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