Ashoka.The Downfall Of A Demigod ? Part-1

I'm not going to talk about the goods and bads of Mauryan samrat you've studied in your history textbooks while hating and resenting most of it at the same time.

I'll talk about what you never got to know about possibly one of the greatest dramatical and controversial reign this country and this world ever got to witness.

This tale ahead speaks of a man who was compared to the kinds of Gods or even the greaters.

Weaponry Excellence
By his time of birth,the operating sage of the delivery touch the veins of his right hand and predicted that this boy will have unparalleled skills and strength for the weilding of most or all kinds of weapons there would be.

No sword would be too big nor any shield would be too heavy for this warrior to carry, he's destined to write and smite his own destiny of life and death in the wargrounds.

Was He Something Fated ?

Fate wasn't his strongest point ironically.In the term where he served his training days as a prince,his mentors often mentioned to his father that his boy is more than a warrior, he's a ruthless killer and you use a man like that to destroy a kingdom,not to rule it.

But his father saw more in him,he saw potential far beyond the greatest of the greatest Kings of all times.

Did He Knew His End ?

Ashoka had a habit of cherishing the Buddhists.It was one which he neither god from his father,nor his mother.It was abstract.

Before waging the war to Kalinga,he consulted such Buddhist,known in that time by the name of "Pandora".

The Buddhist said " This war won't change just history, it'll change you.
My King in your right arm you carry your fate and in your left you carry this world's.
There is steel of baduck sharp enough to sink into your chest or an army potential enough to lay stress upon yours.

But what really will defeat you even after your victory in this battle is the very fact that you were never destined to be a King at all.

You were destined to be something entirely else,and you'll only find that thing within yourself once you're completely destroyed and dissolved of every else thing the throne and the world has got you pretending to be.

You are...
(Will be continued in a second part)