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Asʹoka

of Magadʹha. In the third century the “nursing father” of Buddhism, as Constantine was of Christianity. He is called “the king beloved of the gods.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Ashmolean Museum
Ashtaroth
Ashur
Asinus
Asir
~ Ask
Ask and Embla
Aslo
Asmodeus [the destroyer]
Asmodeus
Asoka
Asoors
Aspasia
Aspatia
Aspen
Aspersions
Aspnaltic Lake
Asrael
Ass
Ass
Ass’s Bridge (The)

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Aso`ka