Editing Dharma (section)

===Eusebeia and dharma===
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[[File:AsokaKandahar.jpg|thumb|The [[Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription]] is from Indian [[Emperor Asoka]] in 258 BCE, and found in [[Afghanistan]]. The inscription renders the word ''dharma'' in Sanskrit as ''[[eusebeia]]'' in Greek, suggesting ''dharma'' in ancient India meant spiritual maturity, devotion, piety, duty towards and reverence for human community.{{sfn|Hacker|2006}}]]
In the mid-20th century, an inscription of the Indian [[Emperor Asoka]] from the year 258 BCE was discovered in Afghanistan, the [[Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription]]. This rock inscription contains [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]] text. According to [[Paul_Hacker_(Indologist)|Paul Hacker]],{{sfn|Hacker|2006}} on the rock appears a Greek rendering for the Sanskrit word dharma: the word [[eusebeia]].{{sfn|Hacker|2006}}

Scholars of Hellenistic Greece explain eusebeia as a complex concept. Eusebia means not only to venerate [[Hindu deities|deities]], but also spiritual maturity, a reverential attitude toward life, and includes the right conduct toward one's parents, siblings and children, the right conduct between husband and wife, and the conduct between biologically unrelated people. This rock inscription, concludes Paul Hacker, suggests dharma in India, about 2300 years ago, was a central concept and meant not only religious ideas, but ideas of right, of good, of one's duty toward the human community.{{sfn|Hacker|2006}}<ref>[[Etienne Lamotte]], Bibliothèque du Museon 43, Louvain, 1958, p. 249.</ref>