The "9" : Mysterious 9 Jewels of King Ashoka

You must have heard about the 9 Jewels of “Akbar the Great” of the Indian Medieval Era including Tansen, Raja Man Singh (The Glory of Rajputana) and Birbal, but I am sure you have never heard about 9 great jewels of the Ancient Era.

    

The reason behind, why that they kept it secret and was never revealed. Nobody knows who they were. They have been a part of mysteries of Ancient Indian History, that hasn’t been solved yet. We have many stories and theories which have been trying to identify them but didn’t succeed till now.

For the security of Ashoka and their empire, he organised a group of 9 smartest and most scientific people of that time. They were called the "9 Jewels" of Samrat Ashoka. King Ashoka was the Son of Bindusara and Grandson of Chandra Gupta Maurya (founder of “Maurya Dynasty”), also known as Chand Ashok due to his cruel personality, which had changed drastically after the bloody conquest of the "Kalinga".

More than 1,00,000 people were killed in the war. Ashoka was devastated by the mass killing. Thereafter, he swore off violence forever and became a Buddhist.

After acceptance of Buddhism, he worked for the expansion of Buddhism and even created a new religion called “Dham”. He sent his son Mahendra and Daughter Sanghmitra to spread Buddhism throughout India and the world.

His efforts took place in later centuries and Buddhism became one of the main religions in many countries like Malaya, Ceylon, China, South Korea, Shri Lanka, Indonesia, Nepal and Tibet, etc.

Who were the “9”?

According to “The Nine Unknown”, a 1923 novel by Talbot Mundy an English adventure fiction writer, 'the 9 was a secret elite group of the most intelligent and powerful people of that time. They used to have a vast knowledge of different expect of science, including microbiology, cosmology and light.

They had written 9 different books based on different different 9 topics. The knowledge was very deep and vast, which could create disaster and violence if it got into the wrong hand.

Therefore, to prevent the knowledge, they were instructed not to disclose their identities forever.

Why the society or the group was organized?

After adopting Buddhism, for the sake of Human welfare Ashoka introduce different rules and did some experiments, this was one of them. Therefore he started to gather the information by himself, but later found it extremely difficult to make it happen all alone, so he decided to organize a group to help him.

Why it was a secret?

As we all know from the above, the identity of the very conspicuous Group and members were not allowed to disclose their identity as well as the information they have been collecting for years. Many stories say "The main concern could have been that the particular age was hostile and warlike. Rulers had been trying to acquire each other’s kingdoms by using various tactics, after acquiring the knowledge they could use it against each other.

Some believe the 9 have the knowledge of modern science and weapon-building techniques also.

Nobody knows the real story of the “9”. Except for the encounters mentioned in the book “The Nine Unknown”. Just like other thousands of stories, this is also a Mystery that is yet to be solved…………………..