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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Indian English Шаблон:South Asia in 500 BCE Aparanta, or Aparantaka (meaning "Western border") was a geographical region of ancient India. It corresponded to the northern part of the Konkan region on the western coast of India. English civil servant-turned-historian J. F. Fleet believed that the Aparanta region included Kathiawad, Kutch, and Sindh, beside Konkan. However, historical records make it clear that the extent of Aparanta was much smaller.[1]

The Junagadh inscription of Rudradaman mentions that during Ashoka's reign, a Yonaraja (literally; Ionian, or Greek, King), Tushaspha was the governor of Aparanta.[2] A Buddhist text, the Mahavamsa states (xii.5) that at the conclusion of the Third Buddhist Council (c.250 BCE), a Yona (Greek) Thera (monk) Dhammarakkhita was sent here by the emperor Ashoka to preach Dhamma[3] and 37,000 people embraced Buddhism due to his effort (Mahavamsa, xii.34-6). According to Buddhist scholar A.K. Warder, the Dharmaguptaka sect originated here.[4]

Aparanta is regarded as an umbrella term for Shurparakadesha for Konkan, to include in the North and Gomantaka in the south with the river Kundalika to serving as a dividing line in between the two.[5]

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  2. Thapar R. (2001), Шаблон:IAST and the Decline of the Mauryas, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, Шаблон:ISBN, p.128
  3. Thapar R. (2001), Шаблон:IAST and the Decline of the Mauryas, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, Шаблон:ISBN, p.47
  4. Indian Buddhism by A.K. Warder Motilal Banarsidass: 2000. Шаблон:ISBN pg 278[1]
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