Asoka

(ə sō′kə)

died 232? ; king of India (273?-232?): 1st Indian ruler to embrace Buddhism

See Asoka in American Heritage Dictionary 4

King of Magadha (273-232) who united most of the Indian subcontinent under one rule and was converted to Buddhism, adopting it as the state religion.

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