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"The Kalinga country was conquered by the King, Beloved of the Gods, in the eighth year of his reign.
天佑王在位第8年時征服了羯陵伽，
150,000 persons were carried away captive, 100,000 were slain, and many times that number died.
俘虜15萬，殺戮10萬，另有數(shù)倍于此的人死于戰(zhàn)火。
Immediately after the Kalingas had been conquered, the King became intensely devoted to the study of Dharma...
戰(zhàn)爭一結(jié)束，王便潛心學(xué)習(xí)佛法。
"The Beloved of the Gods, conqueror of the Kalingas, is moved to remorse now.
征服了羯陵伽的天佑王如今陷入懊悔之中。
For he has felt profound sorrow and regret because of the conquest of a people previously unconquered involves slaughter, death and deportation."
因戰(zhàn)爭讓無數(shù)人失去生命，流離失所。
From now on, Ashoka sets out to redeem himself-to reach out to his people.
自此阿育王開始彌補過失，親近子民。
And to do so, he writes his edicts not in Sanskrit, the official language of the state, but in local dialect-depending where they're placed-and in everyday speech as spoken by the people.
為此，他沒有使用后來成為王朝官方語言的梵文來書寫法敕，而是釆用了人民日常使用的當?shù)胤窖浴?/div>
With his conversion Ashoka renounced war as an instrument of state policy, and adopted human benevolence as the solution to the world's problems.
皈依佛教后，阿育王不再把戰(zhàn)爭當成國策，而是堅持施行仁政，解決世界上的問題。
But while he was inspired by the teachings of Buddha-and his son was in fact the first Buddhist missionary to Sri Lanka-he didn't impose Buddhism on his empire.
佛教的思想啟發(fā)了他，他的兒子成為第一個前往斯里蘭卡傳教的僧人，但他并沒有強行讓全國信奉佛教，
Ashoka's state was in a very particular sense a secular one.
從某種特別的意義上說，他治下的帝國是一個世俗國家。
Here's Nobel prize-winning Indian economist, Amartya Sen.
諾貝爾獎得主，印度經(jīng)濟學(xué)家、 哲學(xué)家阿馬蒂亞森這樣評價。
