Read the following two statements. Identify each of them as true or false and mark the correct option given below.

Statement I: The Kalinga war was fought between Ashoka and Raja Anantha Padmanabha.

Statement II: Ashoka invaded Kalinga in 261 B.C.E, after they= king refused to bow down to him.

Both the statements are true.

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Both the statements are false.

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Statement I is true, Statement II is false.

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Statement I is false, Statement II is true.

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Solution

The correct option is A Both the statements are true.
The Kalinga war was fought between Ashoka and Raja Anantha Padmanabha. Ashoka invaded this kingdom in 261 B.C.E, after they refused to bow down to him. It is said that a hundred thousand soldiers of Kalinga died in this gruesome war. Ashoka too lost ten thousand of his men.

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