Critically examine the relevance of Ashoka's dhamma to mauryan society/what did Ashoka introduce ahis policy of dharma?
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after seeing kalinga wars devastation ,he decided to stop expansion of empire ,as well as power there fore he took a different way from war to religious engagement with peace ...and that's way is called "dhamma"
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Explanation:
1.> Prohibition of animal sacrifices and festive fathering’s.
2> the medical missions were sent everywhere (land of Cholas, Pandyas, Satyaputras, Keralaputras, Ceylon, Antiochus) for men and animals. Plantation of medicinal herbs and trees and digging of wells along the roads.
3> On 12 years of his consecration, Yuktas (subordinate officers) rajukas (rural administrators) and the Pradesikas (head of the districts) were ordered to tour every five years and propagate Dhamma. It also mentions about being generous to Brahmans and sramanas and obedient to one’s mother and father, friends and relatives.
4> The sound of the drum has become the sound of Dhamma showing the people the divine form.
5> Mentions about the introduction of the institution of the dhamma-mahammatas, the officers of the Dhamma in his fourteenth year of reign. It also mentions about humane treatment of servants by masters and of prisoners by government officials.
6> n the tenth year of his reign Asoka went on a visit to Bodh-Gaya, to see the Bodhi-tree. Following this event he started a system of Dhamma-yatas which is described in this edict. Dhamma-yatas were occasions when he toured the country for the furtherance of Dhamma.