I have had this inscription of Dharma engraved in order that my sons and great-grandsons may not consider making new conquests, or that if military conquests are made, that they be done with forbearance and light punishment, or better still, that they consider making conquest by Dharma only, for that bears fruit in this world and the next.
— Ashoka the Great Ancient

Indian emperor, spread Buddhism

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Rock Edict XIII, Kalinga conquest aftermath

Date / Period

c. 260 BCE

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/ashoka.html

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