Mehr zum Maurya-Reich erfährt man hier:
- Wheeler, M.: Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka. London 1959 (=Ancient Peoples and Places, 15)
- The history and culture of the Indian people. Vol. II. The age of imperial unity. General editor: R. C. Majumdar (1st ed.: 1951). Bombay (4th ed.) 1968.
Die Denkmäler der Maurya-Zeit behandelt umfassend:
- Gupta, S. P.: The roots of Indian art (A detailed study of the formative period of Indian art and architecture: third and second centuries B. C. - Mauryan and late Mauryan). Delhi 1980.
Zur Frage eines Einflusses der Kunst der Achämeniden auf die frühindische
der Maurya-Zeit nehmen Stellung:
- Auboyer, J.: Les Achéménides et l'art de l'Inde ancienne. In: Commémoration Cyrus. (...). II. Leiden, Téhéran, Liège 1974 (=Acta Iranica, 2), pp. 263-267.
- Boardman, J.: The diffusion of Classical art in antiquity. The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1993. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. London 1994
- Nylander, C.: Master from Persepolis? (A note on the problem of the origins of Maurya art). In: Orientalia Iosephi Tucci memoriae dicata. Ed. cur. G. Gnoli, L. Lanciotti. (=IsMEO, Serie Orientale Roma, LVI:1-3). Roma, vol. 3, 1988, pp. 1029-1038
- Wheeler, M.: The transformation of Persepolis architectural motifs into sculpture under the Indian Mauryan dynasty. In: Commémoration Cyrus. (...). II. Leiden, Téhéran, Liège 1974 (=Acta Iranica, 2), pp. 250-261.
Der berühmteste Herrscher der Maurya-Dynastie war Ashoka.