Truth Behind Kalinga War : Buddhist Atrocity Against Vedic Sanatana Dharma

कळिंग युद्ध के पिछे सत्यता 
Truth Behind Kalinga war 
(Buddhist atrocities against Hindus)

Except few parts of Tamilnadu, Kerala and Karnataka entire south Asia region was under mouryan rule. After demise of Chanakya, when Bindusar was the king, few Buddhist Monks appeared at Pataliputra court. After many persuasion, they successfully got many facilities to establish and spread Buddhism in his kingdom. (Baudh dharma aur Bihar, (1960) page- 62). Slowly Buddhism spread through out Magadha kingdom.  Bindusar was converted to Buddhism and his son Ashok was converted to Buddhism at a very young age. In their entire life times both Bindusar and his son Ashok had never contributed money or land to a single Hindu temple or Vedic Learning center. During this period no Vedic ceremonies were held and only Buddhist monks were getting invitation to the royal ceremonies. Moreover Ashok & his brothers had gone to the Buddhist Learning Centers for their study during young age.

After death of Bindusar Buddhist monks occupied important positions in King’s palace and they advised the king about expanding Buddhism through out the empire. These Buddhist monks found that when entire region is becoming Buddhist, the nearby independent state “Kalinga” (Modern Odisha, Chhatisgarh & northern Godavari parts of Andhra) was still guided by Vedic pundits and Vedic rules. To destroy this sole veda-dominated great country "Kalinga" they persuaded King Ashok to attack Kalinga. Ashok knew from his ancestors about the brave & courageous nature of Kalinga (modern Odisha state in India) people. So he was not agreed upon the idea of attacking Kalinga. But Buddhist monks put excess pressure on him to win over Kalinga by hook or crook. They developed strategy to attack and conquer Kalinga with sure success. First using their plan Ashok sent some detectives to that kingdom and collect vital information. After return of these detectives without much success, the Buddhist monks developed a very nasty plan. They decided to spray poison on water reservoirs (ponds, rivers, wells) or cooked foods in Hindu temples through out the path by which they will enter into the kingdom. They divided their army into smaller parts and entered in small groups under the veil of businessmen/merchants and go on poisoning the water and agriculture land. They all met at the river bank of Brahmani and from there they marched combiningly and started to travel as merchants till Tangi near Mahanadi. Till this time they were not attacking at all, but under the veil of merchants go on poisoning water bodies and agriculture land. After this point they started to attack. When the news reached the capital at Toshali, the king of Kalinga sent envoy to all janapads (districts) to send army (Paik). But it was too late. Within the past two months, the smaller merchant groups of Ashok's Buddhist army had poisoned many water tanks, due to which  most of people either had died or diseases, so the king became unable to get army from north and western kalinga. Secondly, Ashok's Buddhist army entered all of a sudden; that also from Mahanadi shore without warning. Even army from Icchapuram, north Godavari, Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, Sonepur, Bhawanipatna, Jayapur, Parlakhemundi areas could not arrive suddenly. Only armies from modern day Khurdha, Nayagarh, Puri, Ganjam areas could arrive. Even with this smaller army the Kaling king fought the battle bravely. It was not easy battle for Ashok as he thought. Even with 25% army Kalinga King was giving terrific reply to Buddhist king Ashok. Ashok became disappointed as the defeat will not only be an insult back home, but the Kaling king may proceed further in pushing his army and may even take away Pataliputra kingdom itself, if he will win. Also as the days went on, more and more armies of Kalinga started to arrive from other parts of Kalinga. There was a news that Kalinga armies from Sonepur and Debagada areas had arrived at Brahmani & Mahanadi shores. If it continues for more days, slowly all Kalinga armies will enclose them from both north and western sides and further armies from Pataliputra can never reach Toshali. Ashok’s army will be trapped and crushed by Kalinga army. Initially they had planned that ony within ferw days they can crumble down the unprepared small Kaling army and easily capture Kalinga. They had never imagined that only one fifth Kaling army will give them such a reply. Also untill now Kaling king was not attacking Pataliputra from his side, as there was an Agreement of No-War between the father of King Ashok - King Bindusar- and the then ruler of Kalinga. By breaching this agreement, Ashok had invited destruction of Pataliputra by himself. Actually, it was not decided by him, but by Buddhist advisers in his palace who were dreaming of a Buddhist world without a trace of Vedic ideas. Chanakya Niti was followed in the palace of King Bindusar. Also king Bindusar had great respect towards Vedic concepts and values. So now all these things made Ashok very worrying. Buddhist monks were also started to worry by thinking about their future after war. Many Buddhist people were in the Ashok’s army. So to win by any odd method, they again gave him bad advises. These bad advises were going to write the most brutal and unethical war methods in the history of Bharat.

In those days war at night was not legal. But evil minded Buddhist monks decided to take the advantage of this rule. So finally they decided to attack in night. One day they sent a message to king that they want compromise and will take a week to decide and they will not fight this war any more. By getting this news, Kalinga warriors celebrated as they thought that there will be an agreement. In those days once a king declared suspend of war then obviously it implied surrender or agreement. As No-war agreement was there from last hundred year, so the then Kalinga king had almost made his mindset to make agreement. and many of them left the war field and went to their actual places. After seeing that almost half of army had left the camp, all of a sudden Ashok's Buddhist army attacked the sleeping Kalinga army including the king. Almost 80% of them died on the spot. all others became seriously injured. By morning, there was no healthy Kalinga men on war-ground near river "Daya".  "Daya" means mercy, but look how Ashok's Buddhist army made mockery at the name of the river's name. After getting this sad news, family members of kalinga army and the King came down to the ground. When they were in tearing eyes, Ashok's army were celebrating the brutal win.

The torture did not end here. They stayed here for two months to search and kill any loyalists of Kalinga king. They raped the wives and women family memebers of Kalinga army. Ashok shouted, “To take a perfect revenge we, the Pataliputris have all rights to enjoy these women.” They also went on searching the members of king's family in the palace. Karubaki, the sister of Senapati (Army chief) who belonged to Shabar tribe of Nayagarh/Ganjam area was there in the palace. Most women members made suicides to protect their purity. Therefore, Karubaki with his brother fled. However, Ashok's army followed them. After a few days they captured them from a cave. They then presented her to their Buddhist king Ashok. Ashok first did all odd jobs and tortures on his brother before her eys. After seeing all these, she surrendered before Ashok. Ashok raped her and mocked at her that Buddhist sperm is entering into Vedic ovary and Buddhist will born from the sister of my Enemy's army chief. After gang rape, Ashok left her and took away all ornaments from Puri Jagannath temple and palace. To make more insult to Vedic culture, he buried a teeth said to be that of Buddha in Jagannath Temple and destroyed the temple after burning the then idols. The Buddhist atrocities was not less than Muslim atrocities in other parts of India.

The torture story of Karubaki is still in the minds of tribal people of Odisha. Buddhist monks were never merciful through out the history. Even now the acts of Buddhist people in Rohyang, Myanmar & Thailand on Muslims is a testimony to this fact. Chinese Buddhist are killing Tibetan Buddhist. Bhutanese Buddhist hates Nepalese Buddhist. SriLankan buddhist were killing Hindus there. When they became minority in India, they started to act like merciful persons just like the Christian Missionaries.

By destroying temples he made Buddha vihars in Kalinga and his representatives were ruling kaling for many years. The Bauddha vihars were never made by kalinga kings and these Vihars represent the torture tales of Buddhist attack on Vedic culture of Jagannath Puri. After many centuries later, Kalinga Hindu kings remade those temples.

Buddhist atrocities against other religion are now well known in Rohyang, Myanmar or in Thailand or Vietnaam. Kaling war was a historically very important atrocite by Buddhist people on Vedic Sanatan Dharma. After this war Buddhisim spreaded very rapidly in eastern coastal part of India.

So it is clear that to spread Buddhism in Kaling, Buddhist King Ashok ordered to make Boudh Stups through out Kalinga. Mean time they destroyed many temples and made Boudh stups on them. He also ordered to carve out Buddhist thoughts on stones in many parts of Kalinga.Many Buddhist monks lived here to propagate Buddhist thoughts and destroy Vedic concepts.They took the help of sword for this. They killed many Brahmin Purohits in this process and converted their family to Buddhism. It is one of the darkest times in the history of Kalinga.  This process continued for allmost 300 years. Many Brahmin families had left the kingdom and settled in Srikakulam and Vizianagarm area of south Kalinga. After few centuries later descendant of these Brahmin families trained Ksyatriya and Tribal people to wage war against Buddhist thought and re-established Vedic culture. Finally after a long three centuries, they succeded in uprooting Buddhism and re-establish Hindu empire in Kalinga area.