Why was Ashoka the Great called Priyadarshi?
The rock inscription of Devanampriya Priyadarshi were being discovered all over India for centuries. But for a long time the identity of this ‘Devanampriya Priyadarshi’ remained a puzzie. One day in the year 1915 near a village called Maski in Raichur District of Karnataka, a rock inscription was discovered on a hill. In this inscription for the first time the name of Ashoka was found with titles like Devanampriya and Priyadarshi. It was then certain that Devanampriya Priyadarshi was no othe than Ashoka. The Mauryan Emperor, whose name shone like a very bright star in the history of the world, and whom the world honors and lovers ven two thousand years after his death. Ashoka’s Conversion Ashoka was initiated into Buddhism, after which his life was completely transformed. He religiously followed the principles of Buddhism – that of truth, charity, kindness, purity and goodness. He did his bit towards the propagation of this religion by engraving it’s principles on pillars throughout hi
