# Ashoka the Great

Ashoka ruled much of the Mauryan Empire in the third century BCE and is known especially through inscriptions, later Buddhist traditions, archaeology, and classical references. His edicts present a ruler promoting dhamma, welfare measures, administrative communication, restraint in killing, religious respect, and remorse associated with the conquest of Kalinga.

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