Edicts Of Ashoka Essay

In history there have been many empires of the sword but only India created an empire of the spirit. From the edicts, we learn that Asoka didn’t even stop there; he sent embassies to the kings of Greece, Macedonia, North Africa, Syria, and Babylonian. All parts of his project for the brotherhood of man and world peace. It is fitting the sacred rivers of Ganges, where India kings made great acts of charity to all faiths. His greatest pillar edict still stands today there’s a key idea that lies behind all the edicts of Ashoka. The message isn’t from God. What Ashoka is doing is taking the ideas of Buddhist, the eight fold part of truthfulness, compassion, right conduct and the teachings of the James on non violence and making them not only the core of personal morality but of politics. The social welfare
He also put up pillars all throughout his empire that proclaim his benevolent rule and said he that he was going to rule on Buddhist beliefs. According to one of the pillars, proper behavior towards servants and employees, respect for mother and father, generosity to friends, companions, relations, Brahmans and ascetics, and not killing living beings. He emphasized compassion, nonviolence, and adherence to dharma; officials had to oversee the moral welfare of the realm and were required to rule humanely; dharma was a civic virtue that could unite diverse peoples of his empire. Some highlights of Ashoka’s administration were that he abolished the unnecessary slaughter of animals and banned sport hunting; he also allowed one day leave for prisoners to go outside. Buddhism is not that concerned with the order of the world, Buddhism argues the fulfillment of the self will lead to the order of the world. In the end Ashoka’s empire did not outlast him by much, but he caused an epoch of political greatness and became one of India's most remarkable