This is one of the
biggest Bull-Crap one hears from Indians. We are a very peaceful and status quo country any where in the world.
Let me counter this by some of this ......
Even though, many Indians would say, oh this is just a mythology - but just see the thought process .....
The number killed in the Mahabharata War
April 9, 2009 Hariprasad
My previous article on the Akshouhini gave rise to some interesting discussions in the comments section. Sri Chiraan rightly pointed out that the actual number of people who participated in the war had to be much more. It was, after all, the Mahabharata war!
I recalled reading in the Tatparya Nirnaya that the number 18 Akshouhinis was just the core army. The actual army *had* to be much bigger! So I got down to doing some research on this and yes, the Bhaarata has captured this detail as well. We find details of the actual fatalities (and survivors) in the war in the Stri Parva. The Pandavas, along with Krishna, come to meet Dhritharashtra and Gandhari. At one point, Dhritharashtra asks Yudhishthira if he knows the number of people dead and number of survivors. The numbers that Dharma reveals are
Fatalities : 1 billion, 660 million and 20,000!!!
Survivors : 240,165
Todays world population is 6 billion, 700 odd million. Even in todays terms, about 25% of the population got wiped out in the war!
The number killed in the Mahabharata War « Anandatirtha Prathishtana
Ashoka, who is pronounced as the most peaceful of the emperors, during his rampaging invasion of the eastern province of Kalinga, saw his army slew more than 100,000 men.
Lets see the current environment .....
India is not a status-quo power. It is a regional hegemon. It invaded and captured Junagarh and Manavadar in 1947, invaded and captured Indian Occupied Kashmir in 1947, invaded and captured Hyderabad in 1948, invaded and captured Goa in 1961 which was an area belonging to Portugal, invaded East Pakistan in 1971, invaded and captured Sikkim as late as 1975, invaded and captured some portions of Siachen in 1988, created Sri Lankan terrorist group LTTE and later invaded Sri Lanka in 1988 till the President of Sri Lanka had to openly ask the Indians to leave, invaded Maldives in 1988 and has continually interfered in internal affairs of Nepal and Bhutan and has spread state sponsored terrorism in all her neighbouring states including Pakistan.
C'mon guys, have a heart. Don't spread falsehood in such a blatant manner.
Don't carry out historical butchery with lies that tend to hide such grotesque and ugly historical facts.