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Question
Highlight the steps taken by Ashoka to spread Buddhism.
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Solution
- Ashoka became an ardent Buddhist after meeting the Buddhist monk Upagupta and propounded his Dharma.
- Ashoka’s passion for protecting life extended to animals as well.
- Hospitals were constructed for them and animal sacrifice was forbidden.
- Ashoka sent his son Mahendra and his daughter Sangamithra, to Ceylon to spread his message of Dharma there.
- Our National emblem with four lions is a replica of the Ashoka pillar of Saranath.
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