It is disgusting to see a picture of Ashoka that has no authenticity. The spirit of this article is medieval, as it is based mainly on unreliable texts, not archaeology. There is much discussion on Susima. Has anyone heard about Abd Susim who is known from arcaheology? Blessed are the British who taught us that Ashoka and Chandragupta are from Patna. R. Thapar also wants us to believe this. Is there any archaeological proof of this? Any inscription, statue, coin belonging to him that has been found at Patna? Also why this idiotic picture of Ashoka when inscribed statues of him have been found from Kanganhalli? Would Prof. Thapar or D. Chakrabarti, the famed lecturer at Cambridge University, kindly explain why no such statue has been found from Patna? Another Cambridge man, F. R. allchin has advised for more digging at Patna. Have we not been digging there for nearly a century? What have we found? Mejda, 19th Sept. 2006