He embraced Buddhism after witnessing the mass deaths of the Kalinga War, which he himself had waged out of a desire for conquest. He conquered Kalinga, which none of his ancestors had done. In about 260 BCE Ashoka waged a bitterly destructive war against the state of Kalinga. The empire had Taxila, Ujjain and Pataliputra as its capital. His empire stretched from eastern Iran in the West, through the Hindu Kush mountains towards Assam in the East and covered the entire Indian subcontinent except parts of present day Tamil Nadu and parts of Kerala. One of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over most of present-day India after a number of military conquests. Ashoka Ashoka Maurya,, commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.
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