One of the extraordinary sovereigns of India, Emperor Ashoka is called Ashoka the Great. Like Ashoka, both Ashokaditya (Samudragupta) and Gonandi Ashoka (King of Kashmir) were additionally extraordinary. Come know 10 fascinating things about Emperor Ashoka the Great.

1. Name of Parents : Ashok the Great Full Name Devanampriya Ashok Maurya (King Priyadarshi Beloved of the Gods). Father's name Bindusara. Granddad's name is Chandragupta Maurya. Mother's name Subhadrangi.

2. Name of Wives : Name of the spouses is Devi (Vedis-Mahadevi Shakyakumari), Karuvaki (Second Goddess Tivalmata), Asandhimitra (Agramahishi), Padmavati and Tishyrakshit.

3. Names of children and little girls: Devi's child Mahendra, girl Sanghamitra and girl Charumati, Karuvaki's child Teevar, Padmavati's child Kunal (Dharma Vivardhan) and a lot more children are referenced.

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4. Crowning ceremony: 16 spouses and 101 children of Bindusara are referenced. Among them Susim was the oldest sibling of Ashoka. It is said that Ashoka got the seat after a common conflict with his siblings. Ashoka was a contemporary of the Syrian lord Antiochus II and some other Yavana rulers who are referenced in engraving number 8. It is known from this that Ashoka reigned in the second 50% of the third century BC, however the specific date of his royal celebration isn't known. Ashoka governed for a very long time, so he probably been a young fellow at the hour of crowning ritual.

5. The nine jewels of Ashoka the incomparable: The custom or practice of keeping nine diamonds was begun by the incomparable Chakravarti ruler Vikramaditya of Ujjain. This practice was conveyed forward by Ashoka the Great. There were likewise nine diamonds in his court. Nine Ratnas implies nine counselors. It is accepted that Emperor Ashoka had made such an assortment of nine conspicuous individuals who were never openly present and little was thought about them. It ought to be said that the everyday person just realized that there are 9 pearls of the sovereign, because of which the ruler is incredible. The secret actually stays on the names of these nine pearls, yet Chanakya likewise upheld Ashoka during that period.

6. Ashoka's Empire: Emperor Ashoka was the sovereign of Magatha, whose capital was Pataliputra. Sovereign Magatha was unquestionably the ruler however he managed the entire of India aside from Kalinga. It is said that Ashoka had a domain from Iran to Burma. At the hour of Ashoka, the Maurya realm reached out from the scopes of the Hindukush in the north toward the south of the Godavari River and Mysore, Karnataka It was the biggest Indian realm till that time.

7. Ashoka Pillar and Buddhist Stupa: Ashoka the Great assembled Ashoka Pillars any place he set up his realm. A great many his columns were destroyed by the middle age Muslims. Aside from this, he had additionally constructed a large number of Buddhist stupas. He utilized two contents Brahmi and Kharoshthi for stamping on the columns and so on of his engravings. It is said that he had constructed 84,000 stupas in a range of three years.

8. Embraced Buddhism: The slaughter in the Kalinga war and the enduring individuals of the vanquished country shook the soul of Ashoka. At last, Ashoka assaulted the Kalingaites and squashed them totally. As per Kalhana's 'Rajatarangini', Ashoka's managing divinity was Shiva, yet Ashoka presently needed harmony and salvation after the conflict and Buddhism was at its top during that period. The obliteration of the conflict left the ruler devastated and he was drawn to Buddhist philosophy trying to make amends. Aside from India, Ashoka the Great proliferated Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, West Asia, Egypt and Greece too.

9. Coordinated the Third Buddhist Council: Emperor Ashoka in 249 BC The third Buddhist committee was coordinated in Pataliputra in which the expressions of Lord Buddha were gathered. The Pali Tipitaka (Tripitaka) was gathered in this Buddhist board. first century BC in Sri Lanka The Pali Tipitaka was first written in This Pali Tipitaka is presently accessible as the most seasoned Tipitaka.

10. Where did Ashoka kicked the bucket? It is realized that Emperor Ashoka passed on in 232 BC yet where and how he kicked the bucket is somewhat troublesome. As indicated by Tibetan custom, he passed on in Taxila. As per one of his engravings, the final venture of Ashoka was to denounce the parted in the bhikkhus Sangha. This occasion presumably occurred after the Third Council of Buddhists. As per Sinhalese history messages, the third committee was held at Pataliputra during the rule of Ashoka.