28 Shocking Facts about Ashoka
Saturday, November 25, 2017 IST
In this post I will share 28 amazingly shocking facts about Ashoka.
Our history text books in school teach us that Ashoka was a great emperor, that he was the first ruler to spread his messages via inscriptions, that he fought the Kalinga War in Orissa and after witnessing the violence and death of lakhs of people he was filled with remorse, became a pious and non-violent Buddhist and spread Buddhism. [Note 1]
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