Subhadrangi biography of barack
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Mother of Ashoka
Chief queen of Bindusara
The information about the mother of Ashoka (c.
Subhadrangi biography of barack
3rd century BCE), the 3rd Mauryan emperor of ancient India, varies between different sources. Ashoka's own inscriptions and the main texts that provide information about his life (such as Ashokavadana and Mahavamsa) do not name his mother.
The Asokavadanamala names her Subhadrangi, while Vamsatthapakasini calls her Dharma (Pali: Dhamma). Different texts variously describe her as a Brahmin or a Kshatriya.
Names
Ashoka's own inscriptions do not mention his parents.
The various Buddhist texts provide different names or epithets for Ashoka's mother:
Ancestry
Ashokavadana, which does not mention Ashoka's mother by name,[7] states that she was the daughter of a Brahmin from Champa city near the Mauryan capital Pataliputra.
According to the Mahavamsa-tika, Ashoka's mother Dhamma belonged to the Moriya Kshatriya clan.
According to the 2nd century historian App