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Why was the Kalinga War a turning point in the life of Ashoka? What value you can integrate

with king's action-No war policy?​

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According to a contemporary text, the Edicts of Ashoka, Ashoka converted to Buddhism because he “felt ... A. L. Basham, Ashoka's personal religion became Buddhism, if not before, then certainly after the Kalinga War.
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