Life of India's greatest warrior king Ashoka
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wow have u been living in a hole all ur life?Originally posted by angel7030:Who is Elvis??? never heard of, are you talking about elve and dwarf?? -
i like curry fish...
and curry fish after coke thn smoke, coke again bery siok one
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Ashoka is a really great king
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wr0ng forum
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Ya, ya, you too, we all come from a hole ya. It just that you come faster than me.Originally posted by DjMatrix:wow have u been living in a hole all ur life? -
Oh yes, he rule with velvet gloves on his handsOriginally posted by An Eternal Now:Ashoka is a really great king -
Originally posted by angel7030:Ah..very enlightening, i hv asked one of my indian staff, she told me what you said is true, she told me to try Northern Indian crusine, very nice, but vegetable only. She also said something about Muthu curry, what is this curry??. And where is Muthu?
Muthu's Curry is a restaurant. And no it isn't a North Indian restaurant. And North Indian cuisine has one of the best non-vegetarian food man =) The Mughlai style food is awesome~! Tandoori Chicken, Butter Chicken, Naans, Crab Masala and many many more. If you want I can recommend you some of the best North Indian restaurants. =)
Anyway, back to topic at hand..
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From my favorite wikipedia :p
Ashoka , Prakrit Imperial title: Devanampriya Priyadarsi, "He who is the beloved of the Gods and who regards everyone amiably") (304 BCE – 232 BCE) was an Indian emperor, of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled from from 273 BCE to 232 BCE. Often cited as one of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over most of present-day India after number of military conquests. His empire stretched from present-day Afghanistan and parts of Persia in the west, to present-day Bengal and Assam states of India in the east, and as far south as Mysore state. His reign was headquartered in Magadha (present-day Bihar state of India). He embraced Buddhism from the prevalent Vedic tradition after witnessing the mass deaths of the war of Kalinga, which he himself had waged. He was later dedicated in the propagation of Buddhism across Asia and established monuments marking several significant sites in the life of Gautama Buddha.
His name "aśoka" means "without sorrow" in Sanskrit. In his edicts, he is referred to as "The Beloved Of The Gods" or "He who regards everyone amiably".
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So you dont know Elvis but at least you know who Michael Jackson is.Originally posted by angel7030:Oh yes, he rule with velvet gloves on his hands -
Great!!, please do so, I used to eat at Komala's India food (veg), it is like a fast food restaurant. At Novena, opposite Novena Sq. Dun know close down or not.Originally posted by coolgeek84:
Muthu's Curry is a restaurant. And no it isn't a North Indian restaurant. And North Indian cuisine has one of the best non-vegetarian food man =) The Mughlai style food is awesome~! Tandoori Chicken, Butter Chicken, Naans, Crab Masala and many many more. If you want I can recommend you some of the best North Indian restaurants. =)
Anyway, back to topic at hand.. -
Hmmm Michael learns to Rock maybe, but M. Jackson??? Oh..that funny looking face guy that like to have sex with small childrens ya..eee!..that was on the news.Originally posted by Short Ninja:So you dont know Elvis but at least you know who Michael Jackson is. -
But do you know why he rule with a buddhism concept?? As i said he is a clever man, he rules with a velvet gloves over his hands.Originally posted by coolgeek84:From my favorite wikipedia :p
Ashoka , Prakrit Imperial title: Devanampriya Priyadarsi, "He who is the beloved of the Gods and who regards everyone amiably") (304 BCE – 232 BCE) was an Indian emperor, of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled from from 273 BCE to 232 BCE. Often cited as one of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over most of present-day India after number of military conquests. His empire stretched from present-day Afghanistan and parts of Persia in the west, to present-day Bengal and Assam states of India in the east, and as far south as Mysore state. His reign was headquartered in Magadha (present-day Bihar state of India). He embraced Buddhism from the prevalent Vedic tradition after witnessing the mass deaths of the war of Kalinga, which he himself had waged. He was later dedicated in the propagation of Buddhism across Asia and established monuments marking several significant sites in the life of Gautama Buddha.
His name "aśoka" means "without sorrow" in Sanskrit. In his edicts, he is referred to as "The Beloved Of The Gods" or "He who regards everyone amiably".
Read more here >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka
Think about it that after conquering with so much bloodshed and killing, he change his empire into buddhism?? What is the uterior motives.
This was my Sec 4 double science history question. -
I like the chinese fish head currey
at Hawker Centre
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He is another music legend and was married to Elvis's only daughter.Bet you didnt know that he was also once a black guy>Originally posted by angel7030:Hmmm Michael learns to Rock maybe, but M. Jackson??? Oh..that funny looking face guy that like to have sex with small childrens ya..eee!..that was on the news.
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Oh, stop eating at Komala's already.. lol.. Their standard has fell down a lot.Originally posted by angel7030:Great!!, please do so, I used to eat at Komala's India food (veg), it is like a fast food restaurant. At Novena, opposite Novena Sq. Dun know close down or not.
Some of the good Indian restaurants to try will be Delhi, Tandoor, Maharaja, Masala Art etc
Delhi is on race course road, nearest mrt will be little India.
Tandoor is the restaurant in the corner in the Mustafa building, (no not the Mustafa cafe -_-")
Maharaja is in Orchard road somwehere... Sorry forgot already lolz..
Masala Art is in Peninsular plaza near Burger King. Their buffets are fantastic and they have live Karnatic Music as well sometimes. About 18++ per head.
These above ones are the "cheaper ones". About at most 20 to 25 bucks per head.
Then there are Shah-e-Maharani in Raffles City and Tandoor in the Hilton hotel. The price there though will be more like 50 to 75 per head. -
KING ASOKA TURNS OVER A NEW LEAFOriginally posted by angel7030:But do you know why he rule with a buddhism concept?? As i said he is a clever man, he rules with a velvet gloves over his hands.
Think about it that after conquering with so much bloodshed and killing, he change his empire into buddhism?? What is the uterior motives.
This was my Sec 4 double science history question.
Adapted from the book “Buddhist Tales 1” based on the Buddhist sutras
Publisher: Jen Chen Buddhist Book Publisher.
Author: Shih Ta-Lien.
One hundred years after BuddhaÂ’s Nirvana (liberation from Birth and Death), there appeared a great King in India by the name of Asoka.
Asoka means worriless; therefore he was known as both King Asoka and Worriless King. In his childhood, he was much disliked by his father for his fiery temper. After the old King died, there came distressing fights for the throne among these princes. In the end Prince Asoka succeeded the throne, and only one of his younger brothers, Tisya, survived from this Cain and AbelÂ’s fight.
In his initial years as a king, King Asoka was very arrogant and pitiless. He destroyed temples, banished Sanghas (Buddhist monastic community), slandered Buddha and treated his rivals cruelly. In addition, he took the evil GirikaÂ’s idea to build a huge prison filled with all sorts of inhumane instruments like the dreadful Avici Hell of the underworld. There were many different hellish rooms within the Inhumane Hell. These rooms were fully equipped with knives, iron-hammers to smash criminalsÂ’ bodies to pieces; iron-hooks to pull out the criminalsÂ’ tongues; iron-chains to circle round criminalsÂ’ necks; molten steel to pour into criminalsÂ’ mouths; burning flames and boiling oil to burn criminals to ashes; pits of urine and manure to drown criminals; iron-swords and the iron-forks to pierce through the criminalsÂ’ bodies as well as many other kinds of instruments of torture.
Besides, King Asoka ordered wherever imprisoned shall never be released alive. Whenever this man-made hell was mentioned, people trembled with fear and disgust. So they called their king the Horrible Asoka.
King AsokaÂ’s tyranny brought his country into great disorder. One day a couple was killed by the bandits. Fortunately, the coupleÂ’s child, Hi, survived but was much frightened and was crying. A Bhikkhu (monk) happened to pass by, and saw this handsome boy wailing with fears. He took pity to his misery, and brought the child to the monastery. The child became a Sramanera and cultivated devotedly.
Time slipped by, the once naïve and weeping child under the guidance of Dharma had turned into a solemn and compassionate Bhikkhu.
One day, on his trip of alms begging, he came by this prison. He noticed that there was not a single creature around the grand building. While he was wondering, two husky fellows rushed out from the prison toward him and yelled at him:
“Bhikkhu, how dare you flout the law? Don’t you know the King’s order that whoever comes within one mile from here shall not leave alive?” Without any excuse, Bhikkhu Hi was dragged into the prison. When he was about to be subjected to torture, he uttered:
“Wait, gentlemen! Like all the Buddhas, I do not face death with fear. However it is a shame that I have not attained enlightenment. Since there is no way out for me, please give me ten days to repent my wrongdoings and achieve enlightenment. After ten days, I will be at your disposal.”
“Bah! You can attain enlightenment? What a joke! Ten days is too long, but we need five days to polish our knife sharper and brighter and to heat up the pans for you.” After these words, they threw Bhikkhu Hi into a deep dungeon and left with a chilling laughter.
As time wore on, Bhikkhu Hi could not concentrate his mind on meditation but fearfully looked at the iron-knives, the iron-forks and the oil pans. It was on the last day when a regular snow and rosy lady with watery eyes was escorted in. She was said to have committed adultery and killed her husband.
The rude guard put a blood-stained cloth into her mouth, and caught her like a sheep and threw her on the iron board. The machine was turned on and a board with sharp nails started descending swiftly. Without any cries, the lady was pierced into pieces with blood shooting and eyes out. Then, the guards let out the hungry dogs to feed on the corpse. Soon this attractive body became a pile of bones only.
Shocked at what he saw, Bhikkhu HiÂ’s deep compassion drove him to meditate on the impurity and impermanence. When he discerned the nature of impurity and impermanence of worldly life, he was freed from worldly binding and became a great Arhat (enlightened saint). Just then the darkness faded away, and came the dawn. It was the morning of the sixth day.
Early in the morning, the warded Girika came and cried out, “Bhikkhu! It’s your turn now.”
Bhikkhu Hi remarked unperturbedly,
“Since the darkness has left,
Following the glory of sunshine;
Perceiving the impermanence,
I have no fear of death.”
When he finished, the guards caught him and violently threw him into the pan of boiling oil in full blast. -
“Look!” a guard shrieked with his finger pointing at the pan and could not move his eyes from it. Hearing the cries, the cruel Girika came running and found that the boiling oil had become pure water, full of great lotuses on which Bhikkhu Hi was sitting in meditation. From his body, bright, soft light was seen radiating throughout the dim hell.
On hearing it, King Asoka rushed to the scene. Deeply inspired by the inconceivable wonder, he pondered on without saying a word.
Bhikkhu Hi saw it was time to preach to the King Asoka, so he said, “Your Majesty, do you know through what bliss that made you become a king, and can you remember what Buddha predicated to you in the past?”
Surprisingly, King Asoka replied obediently, “Elder, I beg you to teach me.”
Bhikkhu Hi stated, “One hundred years ago, once Buddha and his disciple Ananda were on their way to the town to beg for food, there were some children building palaces and gardens with sands on the roadside. One of them saw the light radiating from Buddha; he offered the sands as if they were precious jewels to the Buddha. Buddha, then, told Ananda, “one hundred years after my Nirvana, this child will be born as a great king by the name of Asoka. For believing in the Dharma, he will build eighty four thousand pagodas to keep my Sarira.” The child who then made offerings to the Buddha is Your Majesty, and the other children are now Your Majesty’s ministers.”
King Asoka was much pleased at knowing the predication. While he was musing on, he heard Girika yelling at him:
“Your Majesty should die!”
“How come?” King Asoka asked surprisingly.
“Your Majesty ordered that no men should be let out alive and no exception is permitted. Today Your Majesty and your attendants have to die here.” After these words, Girika swayed his knife and spat, arrogantly.
King Asoka said with a smile, “Quite true, even the King can’t change the law at his will. Yet… you seem to have stayed here for a log time, don’t you?” As soon as he had finished these words, his body guards rushed to grab Girika, and threw him into the burning flames. Soon the killer was burnt into ashes. King Asoka commanded to destroy the prison and burned up all the inhumane instruments. From then on the horrible man-made hell disappeared from the world.
After King Asoka returned from the prison, evil gradually melted from his heart, and he wished to learn more of the Dharma. His compassion was provoked when he witnessed more than one hundred thousand of his captivates were slaughtered in the Chia-lin-chia battle. He came to Bhikkhu Hi to repent his evil doings and took refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
Sometimes King Asoka would blame himself for the countless sins he committed and sighed that he was not able to sight BuddhaÂ’s solemn demeanor any better than listened to his teachings personally. It was owing to his little good deeds in the past that he was given the glory as a king. So he felt a deep sense of shame, and vowed before BuddhaÂ’s image that he would promote Buddhism for the benefit of sentient beings. Once he even came to pay respect to BuddhaÂ’s relics and muttered:
“Though I can’t personally see the Buddha, I am luckier than the people living in remote areas who have not even heard Buddha’s name. I should obey Buddha’s predication to build the pagodas all over the world as well as to send Bhikkhus abroad to preach the Dharma and lead people to live the Right Livelihood. I’ll be compassionate and generous to people and encourage them to practice the Five Precepts* and the Ten Virtuous Deeds* to build a pure land in the world; and I’ll help them stay away from bad facts: greed, anger, ignorance and suspicion which make up a hell on Earth.” So he visited Rajagrha city, took about four litre of Sariras that the late King Ajatasatru buried, and built the well known eighty four thousand pagodas to keep them.
With deep remorse and under DharmaÂ’s guidance, King Asoka ruled his country with benevolence that brought the country peace and won him respects.
• Five Precepts: Refrain from killing, stealing, lying, sexual misconduct and consumption of intoxicants.
• Ten Virtuous Deeds: Refrain from killing, stealing, lying, sexual misconduct, frivolous and meaningless talk, tale bearing, abusive speech, covetousness, ill-will and perverted views. -
haha.. nine unknown men and popularity is an oxymoronOriginally posted by Friedice:the greatest military ruler that ever lived
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka
Ashoka in popular culture
Asoka is a largely fictionalized film based on his life.
In some conspiracy theories Ashoka is mentioned as the founder of a powerful secret society called the Nine Unknown Men.
Ashoka is a civilization leader in the PC video game Civilization 4. In the game, he is a leader of the Indian Empire, alongside Gandhi.
In Piers Anthony's series of space opera novels, Bio of a Space Tyrant, the protagonist repeatedly mentions Asoka as a model for rulers to strive for.
Air India's first 747 aircraft was named after Emperor Ashoka.
The Blake and Mortimer two-part album Les Sarcophages du Sixième Continent revolves around the sinister plot of a person posing as a resurrected Ashoka. -
Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
If you wrote all this in your paper in Political Science, You failed badly.
[b]KING ASOKA TURNS OVER A NEW LEAF
Adapted from the book “Buddhist Tales 1” based on the Buddhist sutras
Publisher: Jen Chen Buddhist Book Publisher.
Author: Shih Ta-Lien.
One hundred years after BuddhaÂ’s Nirvana (liberation from Birth and Death), there appeared a great King in India by the name of Asoka.
Asoka means worriless; therefore he was known as both King Asoka and Worriless King. In his childhood, he was much disliked by his father for his fiery temper. After the old King died, there came distressing fights for the throne among these princes. In the end Prince Asoka succeeded the throne, and only one of his younger brothers, Tisya, survived from this Cain and AbelÂ’s fight.
In his initial years as a king, King Asoka was very arrogant and pitiless. He destroyed temples, banished Sanghas (Buddhist monastic community), slandered Buddha and treated his rivals cruelly. In addition, he took the evil GirikaÂ’s idea to build a huge prison filled with all sorts of inhumane instruments like the dreadful Avici Hell of the underworld. There were many different hellish rooms within the Inhumane Hell. These rooms were fully equipped with knives, iron-hammers to smash criminalsÂ’ bodies to pieces; iron-hooks to pull out the criminalsÂ’ tongues; iron-chains to circle round criminalsÂ’ necks; molten steel to pour into criminalsÂ’ mouths; burning flames and boiling oil to burn criminals to ashes; pits of urine and manure to drown criminals; iron-swords and the iron-forks to pierce through the criminalsÂ’ bodies as well as many other kinds of instruments of torture.
Besides, King Asoka ordered wherever imprisoned shall never be released alive. Whenever this man-made hell was mentioned, people trembled with fear and disgust. So they called their king the Horrible Asoka.
King AsokaÂ’s tyranny brought his country into great disorder. One day a couple was killed by the bandits. Fortunately, the coupleÂ’s child, Hi, survived but was much frightened and was crying. A Bhikkhu (monk) happened to pass by, and saw this handsome boy wailing with fears. He took pity to his misery, and brought the child to the monastery. The child became a Sramanera and cultivated devotedly.
Time slipped by, the once naïve and weeping child under the guidance of Dharma had turned into a solemn and compassionate Bhikkhu.
One day, on his trip of alms begging, he came by this prison. He noticed that there was not a single creature around the grand building. While he was wondering, two husky fellows rushed out from the prison toward him and yelled at him:
“Bhikkhu, how dare you flout the law? Don’t you know the King’s order that whoever comes within one mile from here shall not leave alive?” Without any excuse, Bhikkhu Hi was dragged into the prison. When he was about to be subjected to torture, he uttered:
“Wait, gentlemen! Like all the Buddhas, I do not face death with fear. However it is a shame that I have not attained enlightenment. Since there is no way out for me, please give me ten days to repent my wrongdoings and achieve enlightenment. After ten days, I will be at your disposal.”
“Bah! You can attain enlightenment? What a joke! Ten days is too long, but we need five days to polish our knife sharper and brighter and to heat up the pans for you.” After these words, they threw Bhikkhu Hi into a deep dungeon and left with a chilling laughter.
As time wore on, Bhikkhu Hi could not concentrate his mind on meditation but fearfully looked at the iron-knives, the iron-forks and the oil pans. It was on the last day when a regular snow and rosy lady with watery eyes was escorted in. She was said to have committed adultery and killed her husband.
The rude guard put a blood-stained cloth into her mouth, and caught her like a sheep and threw her on the iron board. The machine was turned on and a board with sharp nails started descending swiftly. Without any cries, the lady was pierced into pieces with blood shooting and eyes out. Then, the guards let out the hungry dogs to feed on the corpse. Soon this attractive body became a pile of bones only.
Shocked at what he saw, Bhikkhu HiÂ’s deep compassion drove him to meditate on the impurity and impermanence. When he discerned the nature of impurity and impermanence of worldly life, he was freed from worldly binding and became a great Arhat (enlightened saint). Just then the darkness faded away, and came the dawn. It was the morning of the sixth day.
Early in the morning, the warded Girika came and cried out, “Bhikkhu! It’s your turn now.”
Bhikkhu Hi remarked unperturbedly,
“Since the darkness has left,
Following the glory of sunshine;
Perceiving the impermanence,
I have no fear of death.”
When he finished, the guards caught him and violently threw him into the pan of boiling oil in full blast.[/b]
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huh? which school offers politcal science as a subject?
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Ashoka spreads buddhism and there is a fact, speculating his intention of doing so does not justify as it is purely speculation.
Conspiracy theory will remind as a theory. U can choose to believe it if u want.