Why Emperor Ashoka wanted Kalinga | Stories that Make India
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- It's one of the most famous battles in Indian history, but have you ever wondered why Mauryan emperor Ashoka attacked Kalinga? LHI's Mini Menon gets us the story.
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Excellent one! We need more excavations as well as preservation of ancient sites. On a different note it is quite clear that Ashoka was already Buddhist at the time of the Kalinga invasion. King Kharavela of Kalinga avenged the Kalingans years later.
The king of kalinga was also known as the king of the seas. Kalingans were the seafaring people. They had trade and cultural relation with south-east asian countries. Kalinga was expanding across the seas. They spread Buddhism and Hinduism in many Asian countries. Even today also one can find many similar Odia surnames/names in Srilanka and countries like Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia.
Festival similar to Odisha Boita Bandhana utsav is celebrated in Thailand and Cambodia in Kartik Purnima. It was surprising to see a Boita (large size boat) in the Cambodian Boita utsav, which they also called Boita. ..
It is clear Kalinga was so prosperous and powerful, the reason why Ashoka wanted. The Mauryans won after several defeat.
Kalingas have one of the most vibrant Maritime History.
To commemorate this Odisha till date every year celebrate Bali Jatra.,Bali is a province in Indonesia 👍 along with many other south and south east Asian countries ,even with East African regions Proofs can be seen in stone works sculptures of Konark Temple,at Konark ODISHA 👍 UNESCO heritage site👍
We had many ancient monumental temples here too in Bengal, but all were destroyed by the Irani-Central Asian Turki Muhammadan Invaders, but I'm glad that Orisha survived with its ancient temples and monuments even tho Orisha was also invaded by an Invader, Ashoka, but Ashoka's expansion was not anti-Dharmic or anti-polytheists.
It's a myth that ashoka defeated kalinga.ashoka was budhist before he never conquered Kalinga.if though the war happened why king kharavela attacked maurya empire after Kalinga war.ashoka never ever defeated Kalinga.
The ancient Kalinga is now known as the Odisha state of India..
I am proud to be an Odia.
Odisha is world famous for its attractive culture and tradition and history also.
Odissi dance form comes from odisha.
Odissi is the traditional dance of Odisha.
The official language of Odisha is "Odia ".
Odia language is placed as 7th classical language of india.
The ancient name of Odisha is Utkal, Kalinga, Odra desh. Etc..
It is said Daya Nadi (river) turned red with the bloodshed of Odias and Ashoka's soldiers .Daya River still exists flows with pride near dhauli , Bhubaneswar State capital of Odisha.
There is some emotional aspect as well. Chandragupta Maurya could not win over kalinga in his life time . He was routed by then Odia warriors many times . Even Ashoka was defeated twice by Kalinga warriors, he won on his 3rd attempt . Odisha remained a relatively independent state through out its history. Odisha used to be ruled by its son of soils when muslim invaders ruled today's Bengal and Hyderabad area. In many instances, Odisha rulers like Gajapatis defeated then Bengal muslim rulers and bahamani sultunate rulers to save its culture. Even today you will find very minimal Islamic impact in Odisha. We boast of our rich cultural heritage, our architecture, our language and of course our bravery. Even before India got its independence, Odisha state was carved out due to efforts of its son of soils and in that sense, Odisha was the 1st linguistic state. These are history and don't come from any Leftists cookbook.
@Mohammad Bin Abdul, You are Absolutely correct, brother.
Odisha defended itself better than that so called rajputs.
@@Munna-bd8pcSeems you have thoroughly researched our history, so able to give correct
facts.
If Im not wrong, the Gajapati's right now settled in Andhra!
@@frost6471 bro mughal dynasty started from babur in roughly mid 15 century those were other islamic invaders or rulers please have some common sense before uttering rubbish learn some basic history otherwise you would always be made a joke like your ancestors
Kalinda kingdom didn't die. It just relocated to Sri Lanka. You can see many stone inscriptions in Polonaruwa Sri Lanka talking about their ancestry to Kalinga Kingdom.
Being a odia I'm proud of our people that there weren't convert to Islam like Bengali, Panjabi, kerali, Sindhi, bihari etc . ବନ୍ଦେ ଉତ୍କଳ ଜନନୀ ।
I know, love from West Bengal, thank you for not surrendering your Dharma to the Arabi-Irani-Central Asian Turki Muhammadan Invaders.
Nairu dalla kola...hoonai peye trath.. Naras 🔥🔥🔥daznas chukhe khuwash 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@@aprildagon2354 what did you write I don't understand
Jai Nonia Jai odra vanshi Jai Khandaiyat Jai Khandaiyat chasa Jai Gajpati Empire 😊
💜🌟KALINGA WAR A FALSE STORY⭐♥️
👉ASHOK 13th PILAR INSCRIPTION(Regarding Kalinga War) Was FOUND Near AFGHANISTAN Nothing To Do With KALINGA UTKAL ODISHA.
Again THERE is No Literature/NOTHING Found in ODISHA Regarding ASHOK.
IT is a False Propaganda STORY Of Colonized RASCAL Historians To Minimize Chakrabarty SAMRAT MahaMeghabahan KALINGADhipati SAMRAT KHARAVEL The GREAT. Who Defeated GREEKS/MAGADH And ALL Kings OF The TIME.......Vande UTKAL JANANI/ VHAARAT MATA KI JAY.
Odisha,bihar,bengal and assam have very underrated history .
Ashoka converted in Buddhism four years before Kalinga Yudh, your history sense derived from Western distorians...🥶🥶🥶
@abhijit agreed bro still brainwashed by Western pisstorians
Exactly. Ashoka was already a buddhist when he attacked kalinga
Source?
@@aryans5129 trust me bro
@@souravsinhamahaptra9366 trust is a very dangerous thing. They say trust but verify.
Kalinga sailors used to go to bali and sumatra, that is why we have baliyatra in odisha till now
Finally indians and the global audience are being awarded of the amazing ancient indian culture.
Kalingas used to have several types of Navy forces with their armed battel ships to protect and escort their Merchant trading ships👍
Ashoka had been Buddhist for 4 years already when he invaded Kalinga. Dr Sanyal has proved it conclusively.
Magadh didn't have Sea ports..Bengal/Sundarban wasn't suitable for maritime business..So Ashoka attacked Kalinga to acquire sea ports like Tamralipti/Tamluk,Kalingapattinam and many other ports which were located at the mouths of Mahanadi,Subarnarekha,Baitarani, Rushikulya etc..
That situation of " no accessibility" of ports existed even before Ashoka
took over. Why didn't his predecessors do the annexing?
It is also said that Ashoka when he dethroned his brother ,the rightful
heir of Bindusara, the Kalinga Kings were supporters of his brother.
It is out of vengence , he attacked
the Kalingas . Ashoka was known to be a ruthless person ,before he " reformed".
Tamralipti was located in Bengal, Purva Medinapur district
@@dwarasamudra8889 Medinipur(Purba,Paschim and Jhargram) detached from Odisha in 18th century only and now Bengalised replacing Odia.Still the undivided Medinipur people speaking language have close affinities with Odia.
@@dwarasamudra8889 Bro Read History Tamralipta Kalinga Dynasty 🚩
Iam from Kalingapatnam in srikakulam 🔥🔥🔥 iam proud my history 🚩🚩🚩
Ashoka's policy of running the state based on Buddhism led to disaster of Mauryan Empire
You are correct .
Wrong . It was biggest empire india ever had. till today no one ever ruled such vast area
@@DrPrashantGajbhare . It seems you have no proper knowledge in Indian history . Certainly , the teachings of Buddhism and Jainism had some impact on the downfall of the Mauryan empire , as the successive rulers after Ashoka could not withstand the repeated foreign invasions . While Chandragupta took Jainism and spent his retired life in Karnataka , Asoka took Buddhism after the Kalinga war and stayed away from wars . That had weakened the Mauryan Empire gradually and eventually the last Mauryan king Barhadhrada was dethroned and killed by his minister Pushyamitra Sunga and Pushyamitra established Sunga dynasty somewhere in 2nd Century B.C.. With this , the great Mauryan Empire came to an end . Pushyamitra Sunga was a devout Brahmin and was an ardent critic of Buddhism .
Pushyamitra Shung, a brahmin of Eurasian DNA, assassinated Brihadratha Maurya. It was a coup - pseudo religio-political nature by Eurasian invaders i.e, Aryans. Their clan are still a menace to the India, run mandir business & industry of falsehood & brutality - by hook they want to rule over all.
True
Battle of Kalinga was against the strongest fort of Hinduism in East India. Kalinga was a unique feudal caste led kingdom where government was run by people considering lord Jagannath as their king. Ashoka wanted to destroy Hinduism by destroying Kalinga and spread Buddhism by force. In his pursuit to do so he surely destroyed Kalinga but Hinduism survived. Even the Buddhist priests that were under Ashoka's helm denounced him for the violence as they did not agree with his approach of spreading Buddhism with violence.
,..Perhaps one point missed is that The Kalinga region was very wealthy because of it's trade with the Java Sumatra regions....
Ashoka became a Buddhist 4 years before the Kalinga war. Explain that please.
Ma'am Ashoka was already a Buddhist when he attacked Kalinga, kindly correct your narrative.
The story is similar to '"sau chuhe khakar billi Haj ko chali". Ironic
He didn't kill in the name of religion. He didn't say kill the kafirs.
Even there are so many Historians who believe that defeating Kalinga by Ashoka was a myth.
It was a brutal attack by an ahimsavadi on common people of Kalinga.Still he is venerated!
What about Krishna who egged on a reluctant Arjuna to battle his own kith and kin?
@@frost6471 ...naah, probably he's a neo-buddhist, ambedkarwaadi - Buddhists
Rename orissa as Kalinga ❤
Very beautifully explained...theoretically and factually..👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
Fake History. The reality is Ashoka had accepted Buddhism long before he invaded Kalinga. It is a myth that his heart changed after the war since he witnessed lot of violence in it. The reality is he remained as much cruel as he was before the war. And he was such a bad administrator that his empire disintegrated 20 yrs later just after his death. He was not Ashoka the great, in fact he should be taught in the history as one of the most cruel and failed emperors in history.
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After few years if Kalinga War , Emperor of Kalinga named Samrat Aira Kharavela defeated Magadha and restore the Pride of Great land Kalinga
The first 30 secs of this video itself is wrong. Ashoka as a Buddhist went for the Kalinga war.
I am so sick of reading those heap of Information in my text book. Thanks for taking me there via video.. It means lot to me❤️⛵
Thanks LHI for existing!
Remove history from your name and replace it with fantasy because the first line of this this video is false and also Ashoka was a Buddhist long before Kalinga . Please find better historians and writers.
You do that
thank you for Showcasing ODISHA Majestic Valorous Utkarsh Soulful History 🙏
Odisha gets very less coverage or undercover by different medias or online platforms or news or any books.if todays Odisha is not showcased then So how it can be about past or History.
Ashok is not a great king he is a demon and he followed budhism before Kalinga war, his main motive to speard budh dharm in all over world. So he attack many kingdom and try to mix in his kingdom. Also from ancient time (Mahabharat time) magadh all kings are trying to occupy Kalinga. But no one able to occupy Kalinga. Also chandragupta maurya 3-4 time attack but he always defeat from Kalinga.
So Ashoka taken a war strategy occupied all kingdom surround kingdom. When he have a big army then he try to attack from all site so he able to defeat Kalinga. But Kalinga soldiers are fought very bravely with magadh samrat ashok.
After that all are forgotten king kharavela. Kharavela king defeat again magadh and drimitrius. And he make a big kingdom
Tamralipti port was also part of Kalinga region. Only later it became part of Mauryan and Gupta empires.
It was belong to the Anga janapada, not to the Kalingas
Anga did not border the sea. Kalinga was famously known as the Sea-country by people of Ganga belt.@@Honokaa65
The reason why chand Ashoka invade Kaling he looted Kaling wealth and wanted to expand his empire brutally
Even we Biharis Don't like ashoka , it's very well documented evidence that how many brahmin villages were burnt by this maniac.
He is named as Ashoka the great by leftists, he should just be named Chandaashoka the terrible 😔
@@devvratmishra9000 He is Known In चांडाल अशोक In Hindi and Bengali. Even Today, he did nothing in his life. No expansion, only distributed freebies and Adopted Impractical ideology of Pacifism.
@@universeofopulence he was made great by Britishers because Indians had lost self-confidence and self-esteem by the time of 19th Century as result, to appease foreigners seeking validation, Indians followed Pacifism and Rise of Gandhi was the consequence.
OMG excellent information to know. As all of us don't know why this battle actually took place. But this information makes us understand now
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I am from kalinga (Odisha) Mayurbhaj district❤❤❤
When did Ashoka embrace Buddhism
The 4th Year of His rule
When did Ashoka invade Kalinga
Yes 8th year of His rule
Once a JAIN monk drew a caricature Buddha on a wall, in response He had 30000 Jainis slaughtered .
He remained a bloodthirsty Megalomaniac throughout His LIFE
THIS DISTORTION OF HISTORY WAS NOT ACCIDENTAL, BUT INTENTIONAL
He did ethnocide of Ajivikas. Total wipeout
BUDDHIST RELIGIOSITY ENABLED ASHOKA TO EXPAND HIS EMPIRE AND HIS NEW RELIGION TO DISTANT CHINA N SRILANKA,PUNJAB, AFGHANISTAN N THAILAND,CAMBODIA N INDONESIA..I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS NON-,VIOLENT,AGGRESION N EXPANSION,EVEN SPHERES OF INFLUENCE,TRADING RIGHTS N PRIVILEGES HAVE TO BE WON N MAINTAINED BY SOME FORMOF VIOLENCE OR OTHER..🙃🙃🙃🤔🤔🤔
Bro half of kalinga population killed in war
Ashoka lost most valuable things in kaliga..One of his son, daughter charumathi's hus Deva pala a real warrior...and many....
Kindly bring audio podcasts of all your episodes across various audio podcast platforms
Thank you Madam for giving justice to great history of Kalinga by showing this video. The so called modern & Marxist historians of British era belonging to Calcutta & Madras universities suppressed the great history of Kalingan dynasties to uphold the pride of their own regional histories of Gupta & Cholo dynasties. The Kalinga was the last state to be conquered by mourya emperors, it was the last state to be conquered by Moghals & the last state to be conquered by East India Company. Such a powerful state was divided by Britishers into three parts thus weakened the state. Northern part was put under Calcutta presidency, southern part under Madras Presidency & western part under central presidency at Nagpur there by creating an identity crisis with in the state which is still prevailing among it's people at present.
There was also a religious aspect to Kalinga war. Ashoka was a Buddhist fighting against Jain King
The stone inscriptions say otherwise. Even after adapting Buddhism, asoka continued brutal kills. Listen to Sanjeev Sanyal. He detailed this in his talks.
mini Menon has aged gracefully !!!!
Ma'am pls one video for Kalinga dynasty from India to combodia funan dynasty established kaundinya 1.
Wow great information about Odisha
Ashoka, Alexander, Akbar all were no “Great”, they were just invaders who killed innocent people, Ashoka Invaded and destroyed the Empire of Kalinga and Massacred his blood-related brothers, Alexander tried to Invade India and killed many innocent people throughout his invasion, and Akbar was just barbaric who massacred non-Muslims throughout his Muslim rule in India.
But sadly our colonial history schooling text books portrayed these barbaric personalities as “great” because these invaders were of a match to European, Arabian Christian, Muhammadan Invaders, who invaded India also and rewritten our history with all these corruptions.
This is very fascinating. Thank you for the history lesson. I look forward to watching more.🐬🌷
Glad you enjoyed it
FYI - Ashoka was already a Buddhist for a couple of years before the Kalinga war. That he adopted Buddhism after the war due to violence of war is a figment of imagination of the "intellectuals".
That's really fascinating!
He was Buddhist before attacking Kalinga
👍🙏 Wow...thank you for this 😊
Well... As a good politician he used Baudha dharma to expand his influence and territory.... Parhaps he was the first one to conceive the idea of gaining influence over far territories through religious missionary.... Whatever the stone inscriptions he installed in odisha are all about his self praise.. Not a single word about Gautama Buddha or his teachings in there.... And he did not inflict any war after Kalinga is wrong information...
Clear evidence of Kalinga war and King Ashoka's embarrassment of Buddhism will be evident after excavation of Buddhist site at Langudi, at a distance of three kilometres from Radhanagar. Langudi is in Dharmasala block of Jajpur district in odisha. After partial excavation of Langudi site by Govt. of Odisha, it has been established that Langudi is the site of International Buddhist University PUSPAGIRI VIHAR. Subsequently ASI took over the Langudi site for excavation since last 15 years. But ASI has not done any excavation work at Langudi, thereby an important phase of Indian history is in darkness.
How long will we keep regurgitating the myth that Ashoka became a pacifist after the war, despite clear evidence to the contrary?
Excellent...
Every Indian should contribute 1₹ to a National Heritage Fund. This Fund could support all such digs.
ରକ୍ତ ra ଦୟା ନଦୀ...
Rakta Ra Daya Nadi
🎉UTKALA KALINGA🎉
KALINGA WAR A FALSE STORY NOT HISTORY.
KALINGA WAS UNDEFEATED
THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY
UNTIL 15TH CENTURY
BACKSTABBER OUTSIDER CHALUKYA MUKUNDA HARICHANDAN
Very informative
Ashoka was already a buddhist before attacking kalinga.
It could also be a war on jains, as odisha had a rich heritage and many of ashokas family members he killed were jains or Ajivikas
अशोक ने बौध्द धर्म अपनाया इसका कोई प्रमाण क्यों नही मिलता ? बौध्द पंथ की दीक्षा "उपसंपदा" कहलाती है लेकिन अशोक के किसी शिलालेख या अनुलेख में कहीं भी उपसंपदा या उस गुरु का नाम नही मिलता जहां ऐसा हुआ हो ऐसा क्यों ? और महज शिलालेख में बुध्द उपदेश लिखा होने से उसे बौध्द बताया जाता है तो कलिंग युध्द से 6 से 8 साल पहले उसके शिलालेख में बुध्द उपदेश है , इससे तो यह सिध्द होता है बौध्द बनने के बाद उसने कलिंग में रक्तपात किया।
I heard somewhere that Ashoka embraced Buddhism 7 yr prior to Kalinga war. Is it true or what everyone knows that Kalinga was Turing incident of his life???
Actually there are several theories on this. What you said matches Sri Lankan theory. But the most reliable ones are the Rock Depicts. And the Rock Depict near Mahabodhi,the place of enlightenment, says he visited the place after 10th year,which was 2 years after Kalinga war. So this is the source from which historians conclude he got converted after Kalinga war.
@@sidharthapatra4296 ohhkay….will search more about it…thanks ..tc
@@rahulkumarroy3107 👍
ODISHA History has a significance behind The make of India..
Kalingas Bravery and Bloodshed changed Ashoka from Chandashok to Dharmashok.
The very first comment made my point too, big doubt about your knowledge that Ashoka convert or submit to Dharma after the Kalinga war, that information has already been articulated by historian Sanjay Sanyal and quoted several times by Mr.Anand Ranghnathan.
Ashoka already accepted Buddhism 4 yrs before Kalinga war ???
Not chilka it's chilika
Ashok was a full time Buddhist before the war of Kalinga.
Ashok did not turn Buddhist after the war, he was already a Buddhist 4 years earlier.
These fanatic seculars call Ashok as Hindu when it comes to Kalinga war but says he wasn't a Hindu when it comes to his contribution
Again they says buddhism existed before hinduism😂
but Ashoka was hindu then became buddhist🤣😱😱
@@thessworld don't get into argument with them... directly slap them. If they come home call our people... they keep on spreading lies like this lady but we are so generous in listening... now is the time to expose them, show them their place... be vigilant PFI terrorist everywhere... it's our responsibility yo protect our people and temples....
Ashoka changed after Kalinga war is a myth. And sending his son and daughter to srilanka for Buddhism is also a lie. Excavation in various srilankan sites confirms that Buddhism was already practiced well before. Surya Roy has done a lots of study on kalingan history especially on maritime part and well explained the omission of lots of kalingan rulers from history books. The boats architecture the traders the concept of mother boats and feeder boats and lots and lots of unknown facts.
keep uploading these infos
Just a point of correction : Ashoka was already an ordained Buddhist before he embarked on the Kalinga killing mayhem. He fought the Kalinga war as a Buddhist. We have to remember one this is that it was advantageous being a Buddhist as that consolidated his power over his empire. A crazy person, Ashoka would go one erecting his edicts everywhere across the subcontinent, commanding what people could do, could not do, going in the absolute micro details. Tell tales Signs of craziness and being an absolute control freak. Ashoka is mostly a western interpretation or a british interpretation of an ancient king who was good to a fault, docile and blah blah blah.... British wanted Indians to be like that.
How many know Gautam buddha's last food was a pig , most probably he died as it wasn't cooked properly. Gautam Buddha liked eating Non-Veg... Now try telling this to modern day [indian] buddhists....
अशोक was in 1500 BCE
Chandra gupta 2 in 300 BCE
Why not use lidar tech to survey the area as it maps underground structure. It has been used successfilly in Cambodia.
who was the king of Kalinga when Ashoka attacked? Never read or heard of it in any video. Considering it was a gruesome war, the king of Kalinga must have been strong ruler.
Ashoka was important or not, but you are really a beautiful lady... ❤
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Kalinga was also never under islamic rule.
UTKARSHA KALAA
ITI
🎉UTKALA 🎉
NO GUPTA
NO MAURYA
NO ASHOKA
NO CHOLA
EVER DAIR TO FIGHT WITH
UTKALA KALINGA.
VERSHAA NANG VHARATA SHRESTHA
DESHAA NANG UTKALA SRUTA
UTKALASHYA SAMA DESHA DESHA NASTI MAHITALE .....🎉KAPILA SAHINTA 🎉
Nice information ✌✌✌💐💐🙏🙏🙏🌹🌺🌹
Excellent 👍🙏🏼
कृपया सम्राट अशोक पर कुछ हिन्दी में बनाया जा सकता है??
Ashoka converted to Buddhism 4 years before Kalinga war
Before kalinga war, magadh Or mauryans were already rich in iron ore.. But as u know greed for more, may be! Iron ore is also abundant in jharkhand. I can make a more logical video than urs and answer ur question of why ashoka hit at kalinga. It was much for the pride and power of mauryans, his grandfather ambition was that, he want to fulfil also his powerful ministers advised him to do so. That will result in a akhand bharat.
It the Oriya women. I am married to one I know. They are the best.
Language of east India.
Odisha was always self centric in building it's own strength & culture that is what being followed by present CM Navin Pattanayak as well.
You are doing good
Vande Utkal Janani. Jai Odisha
अशोका, कलिंगा, बुद्धा,मौर्या... and so on.
Ashoka was never willing to be king.
Sisupalagarh is 5 km away from Dhauli..
Wonderful presentation on the great emperor Ashoka. It was a turning point as she said . He changed his attitude to to the war and worried about his brutal mass killings.
He followed Dharma mainly based on Buddhism. During his reign Buddhism gain it's glory.
Thank you for the presentation.
He converted to buddhism in his 4 th year kalinga happened in 8th year
@@adithyaadi1363 and also ashoka married a girl from Kalinga. For revenge of Kalinga, she made a son of ashoka to blind.
Then ashoka order to burn her alive. No mercy, even after Kalinga war
@@pinakinzaveri4563 even before Ashoka punishment was been cruel the punishment designed by Chanakya bro Ashoka also should follow that
@@gameruleworld.1889 wrong person... Chandragupta is not cruel like ashoka
How you conclude ashoka follow chanakya?
Nice
Its Dhamma and not Dharma, because 'visargas' didnt exist in the olden langauges. Visargas were only developed after 10th century when Devanagari was getting developed. People started writing Sanskrit only after 10th century.
Before that Brahm lipi sarana lipi etc... existed
Dhanyabad aapka, I will be buying beautiful Handicrafts, they are gorgeous.