“It was mentioned in Rock Edict No. 13 in Shahbazgarhi and Manasera that after Ashoka witnessed the slaughter on the battle-field of Kalinga, he regarded conquest by the dharma as best conquest.

The Fascinating Reformation of Ashoka - Ashoka was an Indian Emperor of the Maurya Dynasty. He was the son of King Bindusara, who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from C. 268 to 232 BCE.

A group of 16 historians came together to discuss various aspects of the war that was fought around 261 BCE between the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka and the independent kingdom of Kalinga (Odisha).

The war began in 260 BCE, eight years after Ashoka’s coronation, and was so brutal—more than a hundred thousand dead and a hundred and fifty thousand deported, according to the monarch’s own testimony ...

After the war of Kalinga, Ashoka did not fight any war and kept his empire intact not by military power but by adopting the policy of religious toleration and patronising multi-cultural trends in ...

A great king who never lost a war. But the Battle of Kalinga changed him forever. June 13, 2025 e-Paper. LOGIN Account. eBooks Subscribe GIFT FRONT PAGE. ... We are talking about King Ashoka. ...

Ashoka symbolizes one of India's great ages. After years of brutal rule and the bloody Battle of Kalinga, Ashoka felt tremendous regret for the violence he wrought upon his enemies. He converted ...

Discovered in the year 1837 by Lt M Kittoo, the set of rock edicts found at Dhauli, a little distance away from Bhubaneswar, contain 11 of the 14 rock edicts of Ashoka.

Ashoka’s own inscriptions tell us that a 100,000 died in the war and an even larger number died from wounds and hunger. A further 150,000 were taken away as captives. SRK - Shahrukh Khan In Film ...