Pilgrimage to the Bodhi Tree
· Mahabodhi Temple, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · file Ten regnal years after his consecration, Ashoka traveled to Sambodhi, identified with Bodh Gaya. His own Major Rock Edict VIII presents this journey as the beginning of royal tours centered on morality rather than pleasure. 258 BCE is calculated approximately from a coronation around 268 BCE; Sambodhi is identified with Bodh Gaya.
