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Background: Following the Battle of Kalinga, Asoka surveyed the cost of war and had the message below inscribed on a rock pillar found in his kingdom.
"When an unconquered country is conquered, slaughter, death, and deportation of people [are taking place] there. Thus arose His Sacred Majesty's Remorse for having conquered the Kalingas...."
Source: 13th Rock Edict from Asoka’s Kingdom. Circa 250 BC.
Remorse- deep regret for something
Is this a primary or secondary source?
Answer:
Primary
Step-by-step explanation:
As we can see in the question above, the text was written by someone who witnessed the Battle of Kalinga and was assessing the cost that this war brought to the kingdom. In this case, we can recognize this text as a primary source, since primary sources are documents written about an event, written by someone who witnessed the event.
A second source, however, is a document, written by someone who analyzed documents from primary sources and did research on them.