10 Lines on ‘Ashoka – The Great’
- One of the greatest rulers of India’s history is Ashoka. He was born in the year 304 B.C.
- After the death of his father, Ashoka became the king of Pataliputra. He was a very good king.
- Ashoka had already gained experience of administration during his father’s rule.
- Eight years after he took his throne, Ashoka’s powerful armies attacked and conquered Kalinga.
- Although he had conquered many other places, this violent war was the last war he ever fought and a turning point of his career.
- He was disgusted by the extreme deaths of numerous civilians, especially the Brahmans.
- In the nineteenth century, a large number of edicts written in Brahmi script carved on rocks and stone pillars were discovered in India, proving the existence of Ashoka.
- Ashoka died in the thirty-eighth year of his reign, 232 B.C.
- The Buddhist ideas no longer inspire the government and at the same time, his descendants quarrel over the successions.
- In less than fifty years after his death, the Maurya Empire collapsed and fell to pieces.
