Question

give full details of the five queens of ashoka? pls give right answer

Answer 1

devi
padmavati
karuvaki
tishyaraksha
asandhimitra

Answer 2

When Ashoka turned 18, Samrat Bindusar made him the viceroy of Avanti, a region in Ujjain. It is interesting to note that Ashoka that time was known as a heartless general and that was precisely the reason why he was sent to Avanti to curb an uprising. However, even the heartless general fell in love with a common girl and married her. The girl was none other than Samrat Ashoka’s first wife Maharani Devi.


Ashoka’s first wife Devi did not belong to any royal family. She in fact, was a daughter of a merchant of Vidisha. According to Mahabodhivamsa, Devi however belongs to Sakya clan making her a relative of Buddha. This link is however disputed.

Devi was the mother of Ashoka’s first son Mahinda (Mahendra) who was born two years after their marriage in the year 285CE when Ashoka was 20 years old. 3 years later was born Sanghamitra, Samrat Ashoka and Maharani Devi’s second child.

When Ashoka married Devi he was not a Samrat but just a prince. Later, when he was called to Pataliaputra again, Devi didn’t accompany him. She stayed back in Avanti itself looking after her kids.