Question

a. Who was King Ashoka?
b. Why was he called Chanda Ashoka?
c. What did he realise after the Kalinga war?
d. Do you think Ashoka was a great king? Why or why not?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

1)Ashoka, also known as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE. A grandson of the dynasty's founder Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka promoted the spread of Buddhism across ancient Asia.

2)Know the reason why Ashoka was named 'Ashoka' by his mother . It is said that Ashoka's mother named him 'A-soka' because she thought that after her son was born she would be 'Asoka' meaning 'no sorrow' . Ashoka the greatest Emperor of Indian Subcontinent killed his 99 brothers and then he was crowned as 'Samrat'

3)Asoka realised in the Kalinga War that the real conquest was not the conquest by the sword but the conquest of the heart. He came to believe that the victory by Dharma was the best victory. ... Asoka sent his missions of peace to establish a new type of relation, till then unknown to history.

4)Considered by many to be one of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka expanded Chandragupta's empire to reign over a realm stretching from present-day Afghanistan in the west to Bangladesh in the east. ... Ashoka waged a destructive war against the state of Kalinga (modern Odisha), which he conquered in about 260 BCE.

Answer 2

Answer:

a.Ashoka, also known as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE. A grandson of the dynasty's founder Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka promoted the spread of Buddhism across ancient Asia

b.The Mahavamsa also briefly alludes to Ashoka's cruelty, stating that Ashoka was earlier called Chandashoka because of his evil deeds, but came to be called Dharmashoka because of his pious acts after his conversion to Buddhism

c.The lethal war with Kalinga transformed the vengeful Emperor Ashoka into a stable and peaceful emperor, and he became a patron of Buddhism. According to the prominent Indologist, A. L. Basham, Ashoka's personal religion became Buddhism, if not before, then certainly after the Kalinga War.

d.Ashoka is the only king in the world's history who gave up the conquest even after winning a war. He started to follow a religious policy of his own after the violence and bloodshed held in Kalinga war and formulated various policies of Dhamma.

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