with reference to the Ashok's dhamma explain reason for making Buddhism the religion of state
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Ashoka's Dhamma is a policy laid down by the Great Ashoka, the Emperor of Mauryan dynasty and grandson of Chandragupta. Explanation: * Dhamma is a Prakrit word from the Sanskrit word Dharma which means justice, piety and good things in life (moral values to be taught)
During the Mauryan period, there was a rise in the number of sects explaining the universe by different methods or a combination of them. The most important among these sects were the Buddhists, the Ajivikas, and the Nirgranthas. Buddhism was important and more popular because it found the solution for Moksha which was ‘Middle Way’ or ‘Madhya Marg’ based on a high degree of rational thinking.
Buddhism attracted mostly the lower orders of society because it was easily understood by the unsophisticated mind unlike other typical religions of that time. It appears that diverse religious ideas and practices existed in the vast empire of the Mauryas, but followers of heterodox sects such as Buddhism, Jainism, Ajivikism were held in contempt of Brahmanas, whose position they must have undermined. Kautilya described them as vrishala or pashanda. He even prescribed a very heavy fine on those who invited Buddhist or Ajivika monks to dinner to honoUr any deity or dead ancestors.
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