You must have heard many stories about the great king Ashoka, also known as Ashoka the Great. Ashoka was the third emperor of the Mauryan dynasty who ruled almost all the subcontinent of India from 268 to 232 BCE. In his early days, he was considered a very bad king, but in the war of Kalinga, he saw many people suffering in pain and he felt very bad seeing that sight, after which he accepted the Buddhism culture. During his reign, India was a very powerful and scientifically strong empire. Ashoka believed that knowledge is power and to preserve this useful knowledge, he wanted to pass it on to future great leaders who could make good use of it. His aim was that this secret knowledge should remain in the right hands only and should not be misused as it would be dangerous to humanity if it fell into the wrong hands. So to complete this task, Ashoka had chosen 9 intelligent people whose job was to protect this knowledge and to update these nine books according to the time and pass on those books to the right people.
Those 9 books were as follows:-
1. Propaganda - The first of these nine gems books was on propaganda and the psychology of war, in which it was told how one's opinion can be changed and how to influence people by using psychological techniques.
2. Physiology - In the second book, there was a mention of things related to physiology and explained how to kill a person simply by touching.
3. Microbiology - The third book deals with Biotechnology and Microbiology. It is said that the method of treatment of cholera had been written in this book.
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