Ashokavadana
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title:
Ashokavadana
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The Ashokavadana is an Indian Sanskrit-language text that describes the birth and reign of the third Mauryan Emperor Ashoka. It glorifies Ashoka as a Buddhist emperor whose only ambition was to spread Buddhism far and wide. Ashokavadana, also known as Ashokarajavadana, is one of the avadana texts contained in the Divyavadana, an anthology of several Buddhist narratives. According to Jean Przyluski, the text was composed by the Buddhist monks of the Mathura region, as it highly praises the city o
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Indian Sanskrit-language text
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashokavadana
date created:
2006-08-17T06:58:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T16:34:41Z
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