Original sentence: 268–232 BCE) the empire briefly controlled the major urban hubs and arteries of the subcontinent excepting the deep south.During Ashoka’s rule (ca
Edited sentence: At its greatest extent, the empire stretched along the natural boundary of the Himalayas, to the east into Bengal, to the west into what is present-day Balochistan, Pakistan and the Hindu Kush mountains of what is now eastern Afghanistan.The dynasty expanded into India's southern regions by the reign of the emperor Bindusara, but it excluded Kalinga (modern Odisha), until it was conquered by Ashoka.The empire was the largest political entity that has existed in the Indian subcontinent, extending over