![]() The vexed Ashoka gives him capital punishment for the gross misdemeanour and mitigates it by granting a reprieve of seven days on the ‘throne’ with boundless merriment! Tissa, already under a Damocles’ sword, hardly enjoys the reprieve and, when finally pardoned, seeks solace in Buddhism.Īs Nehru notes, only the southeast and a part of the south were beyond the empire’s sway. The old dream of uniting the whole of India under one supreme government fired Ashoka. On the news of skirmishes against the business community by the small Kalinga- rulers and disruptions in trade, Ashoka mounted an all-out attack on Kalinga on the east coast and, despite brave resistance by the independent people of Kalinga, his armies triumphed. There was terrible slaughter in this war, as officially recorded in one of Ashoka’s edict, cited by Nehru: Kalinga was conquered. ![]() … 150,000 persons were thence carried away as captive 100,000 were slain and many times that died.
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