Samrat Ashoka Maurya- Shakya Koli Samrat Ashoka Maurya Blood Koli (Koliya) Subcaste Shakya Dynasty Maurya Title Samrat, Chakravarti (Chakrawartin) Born Patliputra, Patna, Bihar Died Patliputra, Patna, Bihar Aged 72 Father Bindusar Religion Buddhism (Anti-Brahmin) War War Of Kalinga Ashoka was an ancient Indian Shakyan Koli emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE. One of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over a realm that stretched from the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan to the modern state of Bangladesh in the east. It covered the entire Indian subcontinent except parts of present-day Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala. The empire's capital was Pataliputra (in Magadha, present-day Patna), with provincial capitals at Taxila and Ujjain. In about 260 BCE, Ashoka waged a bitterly destructive war against the state of Kalinga ...
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