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Azuka

ASOKA

300 BC. AD - 232 BC

Azuka is considered the most important king in the history of India. He was the third in the Mauryan dynasty and the grandson of the founder of this dynasty, Chandra Gupta Maurya. Chand Raghputa was a military commander who seized most of northern India in the years following Alexander's campaign. The first of a great empire in India.

We do not know the year of Uzka’s birth, and it is likely that it was around 300 BC. Uzka ascended the throne around the year 273 BC. At first, he tried to follow the steps of his grandfather and expand his lands with military actions, but when he saw that he had killed about a hundred thousand people and many more were wounded Azuka came to his senses and decided not to. He completes the military conquests of India, on the contrary, he decided to renounce all aggressive war actions, so he embraced Buddhist philosophy and tried to practice the virtues of the Dharma (which is the essential characteristic in the Buddhist religion, and it includes honesty, mercy, and non-violence).


In walking on the same level, we find that Azuka renounced hunting and eating meat and became a vegetarian. He established hospitals and animal shelters, eased many unjust laws, built roads, encouraged irrigation, and appointed officials called (Dharma employees) to educate people in religious matters and piety, and encourage friendly human dealings and relations. He was tolerant. With religions, but he was encouraging Buddhism in particular, which increased in popularity during his reign, and messengers of education were sent to. Foreign parties, but they succeeded in particular in Ceylon.

He commanded that descriptions of his life and politics be engraved on rocks and on stone pillars throughout the regions of his great path, and many of those monuments remain to this day. Its geographical distribution gives us an idea of ​​the extent of the Azuka state. The inscriptions on it are a major source of knowledge of his life and works. These columns are also superior works of art.

Fifty years after Azuka's death, the Mauryan Empire dissolved and never regained its power. But because of the support of Buddhism, we find that the influence of Zuka on the world was great. When Azuka ascended the throne, Buddhism was a local religion of little importance that was not popular except in northwestern India, but when he died, Buddhism had followers all over India and it was spreading in many neighboring countries and Zuka is considered responsible The first (after Gautama himself) is about the development of Buddhism into a widespread world religion.