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"What have I done? If this is a victory, what's a defeat then? Is this a victory or a defeat? Is this justice or injustice? Is it gallantry or a rout? Is it valor to kill innocent children and women? Did I do it to widen the empire and for prosperity or to destroy the other's kingdom and splendor? One has lost her husband, someone else a father, someone a child, someone an unborn infant.... What's this debris of the corpses? Are these marks of victory or defeat? Are these vultures, crows, eagles the messengers of death or evil?"

The above quote is from Emperor Ashoka after he walked the blood stained war fields of the Kalinga war. Describe what Ashoka is saying and why his conversion to Buddhism makes sense.

Answer:

My take on his quote is that he's asking about the reasons for why a war took place. To elaborate, he's making subtle points about how the war happened due to the greed, hatred and other mortal reasons.

Explanation:

Well to understand his conversion to Buddhism in the first place is to understand the goal of Buddhism. The ultimate goal of Buddhism is to reach Nirvana, aka the point of enlightenment where earthly sinful desires such as greed, hatred, and etc do not exist at all. Essentially, the answer is that Ashoka is tired of the endless killings due to hatreds, greed, and etc, and he converts to Buddhism in order to find Nirvana so that he does not need to keep himself in continuous suffering.

According to a contemporary text, the Edicts of Ashoka, Ashoka converted to Buddhism because he “felt remorse on account of the conquest of Kalinga because, during the subjugation of a previously unconquered country, slaughter, death, and taking away captive of the people necessarily occur.”

Word-of-mouth stories tells that after the war was over and Ashoka saw the destruction he had caused, a woman approached him and said, "Your actions have taken from me my father, husband, and son. Now what will I have left to live for?". Moved by these words, it is said, that he accepted/adopted Buddhism. He vowed to never take life again and became one of the most just ruler India has ever seen.

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