. "Ashoka"@en . . . . . . "0269Z"^^ . "Chakravartin"@en . . "Ashoka Maurya (IAST: A\u015Boka; /\u0259\u02C8\u0283o\u028Ak\u0259/; 304\u2013232 BCE), commonly known as Ashoka and Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from circa 269 BCE to 232 BCE. One of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over a realm that stretched from the Hindu Kush mountains in the west to Bengal in the East and covered the entire Indian subcontinent except parts of present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala."@en . . . . .