Back कलिंग युद्ध Bihari কলিঙ্গের যুদ্ধ Bengali/Bangla Guerra de Kalinga Spanish جنگ کالینگا Persian Guerre du Kalinga French કલિંગનું યુદ્ધ Gujarati कलिंग युद्ध Hindi Guerra di Kalinga Italian カリンガ戦争 Japanese ಕಳಿಂಗ ಯುದ್ಧ Kannada
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| Kalinga War | |||||||||
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| Part of Conquests of Mauryan Empire | |||||||||
 Kalinga (adjacent to the Bay of Bengal) and the Maurya Empire (blue) before the attack and conquest of Kalinga by Ashoka | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Mauryan Empire | Kalinga | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Ashoka | Unknown | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Unknown |
100,000 killed, 150,000 deported (figures by Ashoka)[2][3] | ||||||||
The Kalinga War (ended c. 261 BCE)[1] was fought in ancient India between the Maurya Empire under Ashoka and Kalinga, an independent feudal kingdom located on the east coast, in the present-day state of Odisha and northern parts of Andhra Pradesh. It is presumed that the battle was fought on Dhauli hills in Dhauli which is situated on the banks of Daya River. The Kalinga War was one of the largest and deadliest battles in Indian history.[4]
This is the only major war Ashoka fought after his accession to the throne, and marked the close of the empire-building and military conquests of ancient India that began with the Mauryan Emperor Chandragupta Maurya.[5] The war cost nearly 250,000 lives.[5]
- ^ a b Le Huu Phuoc, Buddhist Architecture, Grafikol 2009, p.30
- ^ Ashoka (r. 268–231 BCE), Edicts of Ashoka, Major Rock Edict 13.
- ^ Radhakumud Mookerji (1988). Chandragupta Maurya and His Times. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN 81-208-0405-8.
- ^ "Greatest Battles In The History Of India". WorldAtlas. 19 September 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- ^ a b Raychaudhuri, H. (2006). Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty. Cosmo Publications. p. 268,305. ISBN 978-81-307-0291-9. Retrieved 27 June 2019.