Mauryan and Gupta Court Ritual Music in Ancient India (c. 3rd century BCE–6th century CE)

1. Ashoka’s Minor Rock Edicts promulgated

   Jan 1, 258 BCELabels: Ashoka, Mauryan Empire

   • Britannica
   • Minor Edicts

2. Ashoka’s Major Rock Edicts composed

   Jan 1, 250 BCELabels: Ashoka, Major Rock

   • Britannica
   • Mansehra Edicts

3. Ashoka’s Lumbini pillar inscription records royal pilgrimage

   Jan 1, 249 BCELabels: Lumbini pillar, Ashoka

   • Lumbini Inscription

4. Ashoka’s Major Pillar Edicts inscribed

   Jan 1, 242 BCELabels: Ashokan Pillars, Mauryan Empire

   • Lauriya Areraj
   • Allahabad Pillar

5. Bharata’s *Natya Shastra* compiled (performing arts treatise)

   Jan 1, 1Labels: Bharata, Natya Shastra

   • Natya Shastra

6. *Dattilam* codifies gandharva music theory

   Jan 1, 250Labels: Dattilam, Gandharva music

   • Dattilam

7. Samudragupta reign begins in Gupta North India

   Jan 1, 335Labels: Samudragupta, Gupta Empire

   • Samudragupta
   • Allahabad Pillar

8. Samudragupta issues “Lyrist” coin type

   Jan 1, 350Labels: Samudragupta, Lyrist coin

   • CoinIndia
   • WHE Image

9. Prayag Prashasti (Allahabad pillar inscription) composed

   Jan 1, 360Labels: Prayag Prashasti, Samudragupta

   • Allahabad Pillar
   • Kaviraj

10. Samudragupta’s Ashvamedha commemorated in gold coinage

    Jan 1, 370Labels: Ashvamedha coins, Samudragupta

    • Ashvamedha
    • Museums India

11. Kumaragupta I reign continues Gupta court culture

    Jan 1, 415Labels: Kumaragupta I, Gupta court

    • Kumaragupta I

12. Ajanta Cave 1 paintings produced under late Gupta-era patronage

    Jan 1, 450Labels: Ajanta Cave, Gupta patronage

    • UMich VRC
    • Gupta Art