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Volume : III, Issue : IV, May - 2013 KING ASHOKA AND BUDDHISM SURAJ KUMAR SUMAN Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Emperor Ashoka (304-232 BCE) was the third king of the Maurya Dynasty. He
ruled a truly massive kingdom that stretched from the Hindu Kush to the Bay of Bengal.
It was India's first great empire. It is not just that Ashoka ably ruled this huge empire but
the quality of social justice that he brought to his already strong administration.
Remorseful after his bloody campaign and conquest of Kalinga, Ashoka
embraced Buddhism. Thereafter reverence for life, tolerance, compassion and peaceful
co-existence were the cornerstones of his administration. Under him the earliest know
bans on slavery and capital punishment as well as environmental regulations came into
place. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : SURAJ KUMAR SUMAN, (2013). KING ASHOKA AND BUDDHISM. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. IV, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2412.pdf References : - Dhammika, Ven. S. "The Edicts of King Asoka", accessedathttp://www.urbandharma.org/udharma/asoka.html#ebook
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