“Ashoka's reign was one of the brightest interludes in the troubled history of mankind... For 28 years he worked sanely for the real needs of men. Amidst the tens of thousands of names of monarchs that crowd the columns of history, the name of Asoka shines, and shines, almost alone, a star... the only military monarch on record who abandoned warfare after victory... his life was devoted to the spreading of Buddhism throughout the world.”
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