Revisits the Bodhi Tree in pilgrimage tradition
· Mahabodhi Temple, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · file The Ashokavadana portrays Ashoka and Upagupta visiting the Bodhi Tree as part of a broader commemorative pilgrimage. This may represent a later literary elaboration distinct from the securely attested earlier visit. The literary pilgrimage is not independently dated; 249 BCE is a conventional association with Ashoka's documented twentieth-regnal-year northern pilgrimage.
