story on ashoka forget forgive and emperor who embrance to acquire gave up war was inner peace
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The second Mauryan emperor, Bindusara, ruled for twenty-five years. He warred occasionally, reinforcing his nominal authority within India, and acquiring the title "Slayer of Enemies." Then in the year 273 BCE, he was succeeded by his son Ashoka, who in his first eight years of rule did what was expected of him: he looked after the affairs of state and extended his rule where he could.
Around the year 260 BCE, Ashoka fought great battles and imposed his rule on people southward along the eastern coast of India – an area called Kalinga. The sufferings created by the war disturbed Ashoka. He found relief in Buddhism and became an emperor with values that differed from those of his grandfather. He was a Buddhist lay member and went on a 256-day pilgrimage to Buddhist holy places in northern India. Buddhism benefited from the association with state power that Hinduism had enjoyed – and that Christianity would enjoy under Constantine the Great.
Like the Hebrew Jeroboam and other devout kings, Ashoka was no revolutionary. But there were changes. In the years to come, Ashoka mixed his Buddhism with material concerns that served the Buddha's original desire to see suffering among people mitigated: Ashoka had wells dug, irrigation canals and roads constructed. He had rest houses built along roads, hospitals built, public gardens planted and medicinal herbs grown. But Ashoka maintained his army, and he maintained the secret police and network of spies that he had inherited as a part of his extensive and powerful bureaucracy.
As was common among kings, Ashoka announced his intention to "look kindly" upon all his subjects. He kept his hold over Kalinga, and he did not allow the thousands of people abducted from Kalinga to return there. He offered the people of Kalinga a victor's conciliation, erecting a monument in Kalinga which read:
All men are my children, and I, the king, forgive what can be forgiven.
Ashoka converted his foreign policy from expansionism to that of coexistence and peace with his neighbors – the avoidance of additional conquests making his empire easier to administer. In keeping with his Buddhism he announced that he was determined to ensure the safety, peace of mind and happiness of all "animate beings" in his realm. He announced that he would now strive for conquest only in matters of the human spirit and the spread of "right conduct" among people. And he warned other powers that he was not only compassionate but also powerful.
Ashoka
An imagined Ashoka the Great
Ashoka's wish for peace was undisturbed by famines or natural disasters. His rule did not suffer from onslaught from any great migration. During his reign, no neighboring kings tried to take some of his territory – perhaps because these kings were accustomed to fearing the Mauryan monarchs and thinking them strong.
The resulting peace helped extend economic prosperity. Ashoka relaxed the harsher laws of his grandfather, Chandragupta. He gave up the kingly pastime of hunting game, and in its place he went on religious pilgrimages. He began supporting philanthropies. He proselytized for Buddhism, advocating non-violence, vegetarianism, charity and tenderness to all living things.
Ashoka had edicts cut into rocks and pillars at strategic locations throughout his empire, edicts to communicate to passers-by the way of compassion, edicts such as "listen to your father and mother," and "be generous with your friends and relatives." In his edicts he spread hope in the survival of the soul after death and in good behavior leading to heavenly salvation. And in keeping with the change that was taking place in Buddhism, in at least one of his edicts Ashoka described Siddartha Gautama not merely as the teacher that Siddartha had thought of himself but as "the Lord Buddha."
"The Gift of Dirt"
The story of Ashoka as a child giving a bowl of dirt to The Buddha, the child dreaming that the dirt is food. The Buddha, who has become a god, foresees that Ashoka will rule India and spread the Buddhist faith. A story that develops by the 100s BCE. Image of Ashoka giving a bowl of dirt to the Buddha
EMPEROR ASHOKA
In a class a student asked teacher to tell about a person who inspired him a lot. The teacher started telling about emperor Ashoka.
● Emperor Ashoka was a great king of mauryan dynasty.
● He was well known in India for his mode of rule and development.
● His aim was to unite India into a single Kingdom and hence called up for the war of Kalinga.
● But things were not favourable at that time and his own people started harassing others and hence he gave up the war and wanted peace in the kingdom.
● He finally got vexed of all kingship powers and adopted Buddhism and lead a peaceful life.
Even the students felt happy and inspired by the story.