Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ashoka" in Simple English language version.
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[...] elevating one religion, in this case Buddhism, which encouraged nonviolence—especially against humans, but increasingly against all beings—most memorably proposed by Emperor Ashoka (r. 272-232 BCE). His ahimsa remains the real political wellspring of India's reluctance to take life and of India's vegetarianism, and thus may have been the single most influential ecological move ever made by an early empire.
