Kalinga

State · 318–171 BCE · at its largest around 291 BCE

Kingdom on India's eastern coast in present-day Odisha, whose conquest by Ashoka led to his renunciation of war, according to his own edicts.

On its lands while it lasted

• Kalinga War (c. 262 BCE): Ashoka's conquest of Kalinga on India's east coast; its enormous casualties, recorded in his own edicts, led him to renounce war of conquest.
• Edicts of Ashoka (c. 260–232 BCE): Inscriptions on rocks and pillars across the Indian subcontinent in which Ashoka proclaimed his policy of dharma; they are among the earliest deciphered Indian texts.

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