Ashokan edicts are cited as a rare example of a king showing remorse over the massacre in the Kalinga War. In all probability ...

President Droupadi Murmu on Friday said some parts of the world are facing conflicts and the Kalinga war’s history can show the path of peace to the world. Addressing ‘Odisha Parba 2024’ here, she ...

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 ...

Driven by the profound suffering he had witnessed, Ashoka \embraced Buddhism after the devastating Kalinga War. This pivotal ...

“I too have not forgotten the massacre of our forefathers by Ashoka and the loot of the Kalinga Jina idol by the Nandas of Magadha a century before him. My blood boils at the very mention of ...

He described his remorse and announced his conversion to his people through a rock edict: "The Kalinga country was ... With his conversion Ashoka renounced war as an instrument of state policy ...

Ashoka modeled himself as a cakravartin, the Buddhist term for a "universal ruler," whose rule was based on the principle of dharma or conquest not by war but righteousness. To advance this ...