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Gaurav Seth 4 years, 11 months ago
Ashoka was not the eldest son of Bindusara and so was not the heir presumptive.
Bindusara wanted his elder son Susima to be crowned the next king.
But Ashoka was trained in military and weapons and showed great skills as an administrator when he was made the governor of Ujjain.
In the war of succession that followed Bindusara’s death in 272 BC, Ashoka emerged victorious aided by his father’s ministers.
When he became the king, he was said to be bad-tempered, ruthless and very cruel.
He even built a torture chamber to torture his prisoners to death. This earned him the moniker Chandashoka (cruel Ashoka).
Once he became the king, he started expanding his empire by conquest. In the ninth year of his reign, he waged war with Kalinga (in present-day Odisha).
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