Late Middle Ages · South Asia · Culture
1360
Firuz Shah Tughlaq restores the Ashoka Pillars
1360
The Delhi sultan transported two ancient Mauryan pillars - their Brahmi inscriptions still undeciphered - from Topra and Meerut to his capital, raising them as monuments in his palace gardens. It was a remarkable act of archaeological preservation: a Muslim ruler honoring pre-Islamic Indian heritage fifteen hundred years after Ashoka carved the edicts.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.