![]() ![]() Travelling over hills and dales, the emperor locates Tissa’s monastery, but the monk-brother declines to return, saying he has discovered the ultimate Truth in his new reclusive life under Buddha’s teaching. That is a matter of profound sorrow and regret…Ī highly penitent Ashoka, goes out to re-call his missing brother Tissa. … Thus arose His Sacred Majesty’s remorse for having conquered the Kalinga, because the conquest of a country previously unconquered involves the slaughter, death and carrying away captive of the people. … 150,000 persons were thence carried away as captive 100,000 were slain and many times that died. There was terrible slaughter in this war, as officially recorded in one of Ashoka’s edict, cited by Nehru: Kalinga was conquered. On the news of skirmishes against the business community by the small Kalinga- rulers and disruptions in trade, Ashoka mounted an all-out attack on Kalinga on the east coast and, despite brave resistance by the independent people of Kalinga, his armies triumphed. The old dream of uniting the whole of India under one supreme government fired Ashoka. The vexed Ashoka gives him capital punishment for the gross misdemeanour and mitigates it by granting a reprieve of seven days on the ‘throne’ with boundless merriment! Tissa, already under a Damocles’ sword, hardly enjoys the reprieve and, when finally pardoned, seeks solace in Buddhism.Īs Nehru notes, only the southeast and a part of the south were beyond the empire’s sway. The fun-loving youngest prince Tissa is disrespectful to the visitors and makes matters worse by jocularly climbing on the imperial throne. There is an interruption by the Buddhist emissaries from Ujjain on a tiding of gratitude for the nearly-completed monastery. Dubey as Mahendrabhatt.Īshoka is now the Emperor and is relaxing with a Vina recital in court. Raina as Radhagupta, Pankaj Beri as Town Crier, Nitin Kulkarni as Mahendra, Sadiya as Sanghmitra, Ila Arun as Asandhimitra, Aparajita Krishna as Devi, Achyut Potdar as Sukhvihar Virendra Razdan as Bindusara, Maqsoom Ali as Tissa, Anang Desai as Vikrambhatt, Lalit Tiwari as Agivika, and S.P. A Production of Doordarshan, the Government of India’s Public Service Broadcaster ![]()
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