how did the kalinga war change ashoka ?
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How did the kalinga war change ashoka ?
Answer :- The Kalinga war had a profound effect on the policies and personality of Ashoka.
- Kalinga changed Ashoka's personal life.
- He stopped hunting and eating meat and abandoned the life of luxury
- Ashoka declared Buddhism as the state religion
- The prisoners of war were used for agricultural work
- On account of abandonment of war there was a decline in military preparedness and efficiency
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The ideology of Buddhism guided Ashoka’s state policy at home and abroad.
After his accession to the throne, Ashoka fought only one major war called the Kalinga war. According to him, 100,000 people were killed in the course of it, several lakhs died, and 150,000 were taken prisoners.
These numbers are exaggerated, because the number ‘a hundred thousand’ is used as a cliche in Ashokan inscriptions.
At any rate, it appears that the king was deeply moved by the massacre in this war. The war caused great suffering to the brahmana priests and Buddhist monks, and this in turn brought upon Ashoka much grief and remorse. He therefore abandoned the policy of physical occupation in favour of one of cultural conquest. In other words, bherighosha was replaced with dhammaghosha. We quote below the words of Ashoka from his Thirteenth Major Rock Edict.
When he had been consecrated eight years the Beloved of the Gods, the King Piyadasi, conquered Kalinga. A hundred and fifty thousand people were deported, a hundred thousand were killed and many times that number perished. Afterwards, now that Kalinga was annexed, the Beloved of the Gods very earnestly practised dhamma, desired dhamma, and taught dhamma.
On conquering Kalinga the Beloved of the Gods felt remorse, for when an independent country is conquered the slaughter, death and deportation of the people is extremely grievous to the Beloved of the Gods and weighs heavily on his mind. What is even more deplorable to the Beloved of the Gods, is that those who dwell there, whether brahmanas, shramanas, or those of other sects, or householders who show obedience to their teachers and behave well and devotedly towards their friends, acquaintances, colleagues, relatives, slaves, and servants, all suffer violence, murder and separation from their loved ones ….
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