whenever the topic of ashoka's wife came , there is always an argument or discussion on weather empress asandhimitra and maharani devi are same or not . you have read this lines in various articles and from various peoples. that " some contemporary writings proving devi and asandhimitra are the same .
but did we try to figure out what are those facts proving them the same.
so , i m here with some of the writing as a proof, i wish after reading this article people will stop disrespecting her.
mahadevi viewing the construction of sanchi stupa.
1) mahendra and sangamitra :
ashokavandhan is a book or granth written on the life of samrat ashoka but in that book it is nowhere written that devi had a son and a daughter named mahendra and sangamitra.
it is a shocked thing but quiet true , that mahendra and sangamitra was there childrens is mentioned in the text and documents from srilanka only .
some peoples have given this as a reason they say devi has two childrens and asandhimitra has no one . and one more thing to be noted all the books ashokvandhan , dipvasma etc. was not written on ashoka's period but after his death . so , it could be possible that the after maurya kings doesn't want to mention a prince from a vaishya queen.
it should be one reason why , we take asandhimitra as childless.
2) who was maharani ? :
in ashoka's rock edit , he himself has stated that karuvaki was dwitya devi or maharani , if devi was not the empress , she should be maharani according to rules ,
the rule is all the wives of emperor should have a royal title , only concubines doesn't have any titles with them . in the serial based on ashoka , charumitra was not the empress too but was a maharani .
come back to the topic , if asandhimitra was the empree / samargyi , karuvaki was the maharani , what was devi , a queen ? no , karuvaki can never be maharani officially until devi death . but devi was there.
this point only consist one think , that devi and asandhimitra are the same the empress, and karuvaki was the maharani .
3) why she didn't go ? :
it was a custom back days , when son doesn't continue his father's lineage and goes somewhere else , his mother has to follow him , after some age his father is no more responsible for his mother but he is . but this custom is not followed when the mother is his husband's better half or his love. back at that time womens weren't leaved on there own either she should be with her husband or son .
when mahendra leaved the country , devi should have leaved with him , but there are no proofs nor any documents stating that ,
devi didn't leaved for sri lanka because ashok has her responsibility being her better-halve.
4) her religion :
it was written in his rock edits and various documents , books when ashok converted to buddhism he gave liberty to his country-men , his family members to follow there own religion or which ever they liked , but when he converted , following peoples too converted them with him they was : vitashok (tushyapa ) , karuvaki , mahendra , sangamitra , agnibrahmi . (yes , karuvaki choosed buddhism after getting married , and mahendra was a buddhist after his father was )
so , now where was asandhimitra , why ashok didn't wrote her name in conversion it means if she exists , she didn't converted to buddhism , but if she didn't then why ashok wrote in pillars ,
" The Chief Consort, Empress, and Beloved Wife, And A Strong Believer Of Sambuddha"
it simply means that she was a buddhist before ashoka or say a born one , and her full name was " mahadevi asandhimitra " .
5) is devi a name ? :
kumara devi was chandragupta's first wife , the chola dynasty raja raja chola's first wife was Lokamahadevi , emperor bimbisaar consort was kosala devi , and emperor ashoka consort was vidisha mahadevi , or ( the viceroy of ujjaini , the raja of ujjaini wife was vidisha devi ).
i have a very clear doubt that devi is not a name but a title given to the wife of ujjaini's viceroy , as u see in last para every women has devi or mahadevi situated with them according to there husband's position .
when ashoka became an emperor, devi got the title mahadevi , before his coronation if she had the title mahadevi it is to taken as a insult to bindusaar's empress , and if after his coronation she had given the title it is a insult to ashoka's empress.
( in hindu dharma , mata parvati is called mahadevi being superior and other goddess are called devi)
as it is a the highest title a women could have and should only be given to the first lady or the empress , so now it is quiet clear that mahadevi was a title for empress. nor for any other women .
6) titles / names :
devi , vidisha , mahadevi , shakyani , shakyakumari , vidisha devi , vidisha mahadevi , a total of 12 names and title she had , what was asandhimitra doing , from so many titles devi had from public it is clear , that she was loved by commoners , but asandhimtra has no titles except being an empress , her husband too had atleast 24 titles , it means she too have given some titles .
but in writing , asandhimitra has none , but devi has 12 , why she was soo much loved in place of asandhimitra because they are the same persons . it was " mahadevi asandhimitra "
7) the sanchi stupa :
ashoka had given devi the liberty to see the construction and decoration of sanchi stupa , back at that time no one gives authority to anyone for important works , but only to there consort as she has the right to do anything in her husbands kingdom without anyone's permission not even her husband .
ashok had given devi the liberty to do whatever she wants to the stupa , she was responsible for its decoration , architecture , and everything . if she was not his empress , just one of his wifes she should just have the permission to look after it , and send reports to ashok but no she had seen the construction on herself. it means she was the empress and has full right to see the archtecture of the stupa.
8) the vihar :
some says ashok had build a vihar for devi near the stupa but who had seen the vihar they had recorded that the place is used as a hospital , learning center , has a big garden , a library , the biggest hospital of its time . but no one mentioned someone's living over there , it is sure has devi's interest in it ( a hospital and a library) but no rooms for being someone's home , if devi does not live in that vihar ashok had made for her , then where she lives ?
in pataliputra , with her husband.
that vihar is no more.........
alex von tunzelman , Krishna Swarup Saxena and Benimadhab Barua are some historians who proves that devi and asandhimitra are same and she was his first and beloved wife.
and the first person who proved that it is not mahadevi and asandhimitra , it is mahadevi asandhimitra is none other then ashoka , he was the one who stated karuvaki as his second wife and maharani and mahadevi asandhimitra the same.....
don't destroy such a beautiful love story , and don't show your disrespect towards the
chakravartin mahadevi asandhimitra of chakravartin samrat devnampriya.
but did we try to figure out what are those facts proving them the same.
so , i m here with some of the writing as a proof, i wish after reading this article people will stop disrespecting her.
1) mahendra and sangamitra :
ashokavandhan is a book or granth written on the life of samrat ashoka but in that book it is nowhere written that devi had a son and a daughter named mahendra and sangamitra.
it is a shocked thing but quiet true , that mahendra and sangamitra was there childrens is mentioned in the text and documents from srilanka only .
some peoples have given this as a reason they say devi has two childrens and asandhimitra has no one . and one more thing to be noted all the books ashokvandhan , dipvasma etc. was not written on ashoka's period but after his death . so , it could be possible that the after maurya kings doesn't want to mention a prince from a vaishya queen.
it should be one reason why , we take asandhimitra as childless.
2) who was maharani ? :
in ashoka's rock edit , he himself has stated that karuvaki was dwitya devi or maharani , if devi was not the empress , she should be maharani according to rules ,
the rule is all the wives of emperor should have a royal title , only concubines doesn't have any titles with them . in the serial based on ashoka , charumitra was not the empress too but was a maharani .
come back to the topic , if asandhimitra was the empree / samargyi , karuvaki was the maharani , what was devi , a queen ? no , karuvaki can never be maharani officially until devi death . but devi was there.
this point only consist one think , that devi and asandhimitra are the same the empress, and karuvaki was the maharani .
3) why she didn't go ? :
it was a custom back days , when son doesn't continue his father's lineage and goes somewhere else , his mother has to follow him , after some age his father is no more responsible for his mother but he is . but this custom is not followed when the mother is his husband's better half or his love. back at that time womens weren't leaved on there own either she should be with her husband or son .
when mahendra leaved the country , devi should have leaved with him , but there are no proofs nor any documents stating that ,
devi didn't leaved for sri lanka because ashok has her responsibility being her better-halve.
4) her religion :
it was written in his rock edits and various documents , books when ashok converted to buddhism he gave liberty to his country-men , his family members to follow there own religion or which ever they liked , but when he converted , following peoples too converted them with him they was : vitashok (tushyapa ) , karuvaki , mahendra , sangamitra , agnibrahmi . (yes , karuvaki choosed buddhism after getting married , and mahendra was a buddhist after his father was )
so , now where was asandhimitra , why ashok didn't wrote her name in conversion it means if she exists , she didn't converted to buddhism , but if she didn't then why ashok wrote in pillars ,
" The Chief Consort, Empress, and Beloved Wife, And A Strong Believer Of Sambuddha"
it simply means that she was a buddhist before ashoka or say a born one , and her full name was " mahadevi asandhimitra " .
5) is devi a name ? :
kumara devi was chandragupta's first wife , the chola dynasty raja raja chola's first wife was Lokamahadevi , emperor bimbisaar consort was kosala devi , and emperor ashoka consort was vidisha mahadevi , or ( the viceroy of ujjaini , the raja of ujjaini wife was vidisha devi ).
i have a very clear doubt that devi is not a name but a title given to the wife of ujjaini's viceroy , as u see in last para every women has devi or mahadevi situated with them according to there husband's position .
when ashoka became an emperor, devi got the title mahadevi , before his coronation if she had the title mahadevi it is to taken as a insult to bindusaar's empress , and if after his coronation she had given the title it is a insult to ashoka's empress.
( in hindu dharma , mata parvati is called mahadevi being superior and other goddess are called devi)
as it is a the highest title a women could have and should only be given to the first lady or the empress , so now it is quiet clear that mahadevi was a title for empress. nor for any other women .
6) titles / names :
devi , vidisha , mahadevi , shakyani , shakyakumari , vidisha devi , vidisha mahadevi , a total of 12 names and title she had , what was asandhimitra doing , from so many titles devi had from public it is clear , that she was loved by commoners , but asandhimtra has no titles except being an empress , her husband too had atleast 24 titles , it means she too have given some titles .
but in writing , asandhimitra has none , but devi has 12 , why she was soo much loved in place of asandhimitra because they are the same persons . it was " mahadevi asandhimitra "
7) the sanchi stupa :
ashoka had given devi the liberty to see the construction and decoration of sanchi stupa , back at that time no one gives authority to anyone for important works , but only to there consort as she has the right to do anything in her husbands kingdom without anyone's permission not even her husband .
ashok had given devi the liberty to do whatever she wants to the stupa , she was responsible for its decoration , architecture , and everything . if she was not his empress , just one of his wifes she should just have the permission to look after it , and send reports to ashok but no she had seen the construction on herself. it means she was the empress and has full right to see the archtecture of the stupa.
8) the vihar :
some says ashok had build a vihar for devi near the stupa but who had seen the vihar they had recorded that the place is used as a hospital , learning center , has a big garden , a library , the biggest hospital of its time . but no one mentioned someone's living over there , it is sure has devi's interest in it ( a hospital and a library) but no rooms for being someone's home , if devi does not live in that vihar ashok had made for her , then where she lives ?
in pataliputra , with her husband.
that vihar is no more.........
alex von tunzelman , Krishna Swarup Saxena and Benimadhab Barua are some historians who proves that devi and asandhimitra are same and she was his first and beloved wife.
and the first person who proved that it is not mahadevi and asandhimitra , it is mahadevi asandhimitra is none other then ashoka , he was the one who stated karuvaki as his second wife and maharani and mahadevi asandhimitra the same.....
don't destroy such a beautiful love story , and don't show your disrespect towards the
chakravartin mahadevi asandhimitra of chakravartin samrat devnampriya.
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