Asoka’s Early Life and His Accession to Throne
Devanampriya Priyadarshi Raja Asoka was the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya and the son of the second Maurya Emperor, Bindusara. Acknowledged as the greatest of monarchs in world history, Asoka, is singled out as a ruler without a parallel. In his role as a monarch and a missionary, he made his time one of the most glorious epochs of Indian history. [...]