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Ashoka the Great: From War to Enlightenment: The Journey of an Emperor
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 20 2025
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A forbidden sword. A grandfather's warning. An empire built on blood.
Young Ashoka picked up the blade that would haunt him for decades. His grandfather, Emperor Chandragupta, cast it into the river with a prophecy: The sword is a hungry demon. It sees only blood.
Ashoka didn't listen.
Then came Kalinga.
Over 100,000 dead. Rivers running red. Victory that tasted like ash.
Standing among the carnage, Ashoka heard his grandfather's voice again. The lesson he'd ignored. The sword he'd forged a thousand times over.
This is the story of transformation.
Not the myth of instant enlightenment, but the slow, agonizing journey of a man confronting the weight of his choices. From the palace corridors where brothers scheme for power, to the blood-soaked battlefields of ancient India, to the quiet moments where a soul begins to crack open.
An intimate portrait of power, karma, and the painful path to redemption.
For readers who seek historical fiction that digs deep-where battles matter, but the real war is within.
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