The Edicts of Ashoka, the Maurya Emperor who Renounced Violence in Horror at his Military Campaigns
Ashoka Vardhana, the third Mauryan emperor (the first great unified empire of India), has gone down in history for converting to Buddhism after witnessing the massacres resulting from the campaign he initiated to conquer the neighboring kingdom of Kalinga. His story is told in thirty-three edicts th
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