Prince Ashoka Maurya: A Tale of Heroes, Honor, and Warfare
このQ&Aのポイント
Prince Ashoka Maurya was guided by two kinds of heroes - the religious ones from sacred texts and the warrior heroes from his own lineage.
The religious heroes taught Ashoka about living with honor and justice, pursuing success and wealth, and finding contentment in the world's pleasures. They believed that by embodying these qualities, one could ultimately attain moksha - the liberation from the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
On the other hand, the warrior heroes, like Ashoka's father and grandfather, ignited his passion for combat. He excelled in martial arts and might have even attended a prestigious military academy. In these academies, students were trained in various forms of combat, including archery, swordsmanship, lance wielding, and hand-to-hand combat. War was highly valued during Ashoka's time, with each town having its own central armory and strict regulations on weapon possession.
18-1日本語訳
お願いします。
Prince Ashoka Maurya had two kinds of heroes.The first were the deities of the Vedic scriptures and the prince and princesses who served them in sacred texts such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.These religious heroes taught him the satisfaction of living with honor and justice(dharma),the excitement of money and succesr(artha),and the contentment of enjoying the world's beauties and pleasures(kama).They taught him that if he filled his life with these qualities of honor,excellence,and beauty,he would reach moksha,when the cycle of life,death,and rebirth would end.
That all sounded good to Prince Ashoka.But so did the adventures of his second kind of hero－the warrior heroes like his father,King Bindusara,and his grandfather,Chandragupta.Ashoka loved fighting,and he was good at it.He may well have gone to a military academy like the one in Taxila.Brahmins and Kshatriya came there from all over the subcontinent to learn military science,including the use of the eight major eapoms.Brahmins shot bows,the Kshatriya were swordsmen,the Vaishya used the lance,and the Shudra wielded the mace－a heavy,spiked,hammerlike weapon.The teacher was skilled in all those weapons plus the disk(chakra),the spear,and fighting with his bare hands.Brahmin and Kshatriya students were also trained to command a war elephant.
Military academies like the one in Taxila show how important war was to the people of Ashoka's time.Each town had its own central armory,a strong building for storing weapons,run by a superintendet.The government kept such tight control over its weapons that all soldiers had to return their arms to the armory after they practiced each morning.No one could carry a weapon unless he had special permit.
お礼
ありがとうございます