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| | Asoka: 322-185 BC |
 | | In Asoka's empire, all religions were tolerated but Buddhism was preferred. | | | His son, Mahinda, became a Theraveda monk and was sent to introduce Buddhism to Sri Lanka. | | | The impacts of Asoka's reign are chiefly religious. |
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http://www.npcts.edu/history/WebChron/India/Asoka.html
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| | Ashoka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Additional information is contributed by the Edicts of Asoka, whose authorship was finally attributed to the Ashoka of Buddhist legend after the discovery of dynastic lists that gave the name used in the edicts (Piyadasi- meaning 'good looking', or 'favored by the Gods') as a title or additional name of Ashoka Mauriya. | | | The use of Buddhist sources in reconstructing the life of Ashoka has had a strong influence on perceptions of Ashoka, and the interpretations of his edicts. | | | Wells wrote of Ashoka: "In the history of the world there have been thousands of kings and emperors who called themselves 'Their Highnesses', 'Their Majesties' and 'Their Exalted Majesties' and so on. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asoka
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| | Asoka and the Buddha-Relics |
| | Asoka's object in distributing the relics, in the countless stupas he himself was about to build, is represented as being highly approved of by the leaders of the Buddhist order. | | | The number of the stupas he is supposed to have built --84,000--is derived from the traditional number (which is about correct) of the number of sections in the Four Nikayas, that is, in Buddhist phraseology, in the Dhamma. | | | And it is there that Asoka, after breaking into all the seven stupas in vain (the Nagas protecting the eighth), finds the relics.(1) These he takes, and restoring the place where he had found them, establishes them in his own 84,000, not stupas, but viharas. |
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http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ENG/rhy1.htm
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| | The Edicts of King Asoka |
| | Asoka emerges from his edicts as an able administrator, an intelligent human being and as a devoted Buddhist, and we could expect him to take as keen an interest in Buddhist philosophy as he did in Buddhist practice. | | | Asoka probably believed that the essentials (saravadi) of all religions were their ethical principles. | | | It seems that Asoka had been calling himself a Buddhist for at least two years prior to the Kalinga war, but his commitment to Buddhism was only lukewarm and perhaps had a political motive behind it. |
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http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma/asoka.html
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| | BRIA(14:4), Aztec Empire, Edicts of Asoka, Rise and Fall, Africa, US Foreign Policy, European colonialism |
| | Although the Hindu religion was dominant in India during Asoka’s reign, a relatively new religion had begun to challenge the ancient Hindu beliefs. | | | Unlike many ancient rulers who adopted a new religion, Asoka did not establish Buddhism as a state religion or insist that his subjects convert to it. | | | Asoka’s conversion to Buddhism may have influenced the way he chose to rule his kingdom. |
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| | Buddhist Studies: Asoka |
| | Asoka's importance is due to his role in spreading Buddhism throughout India and beyond. | | | The Sangha was purified and unified, the third Council was convened and Buddhist missionaries were sent throughout India to Sri Lanka and South-East Asia and to as far west as Cyrene, Egypt, Syria, and Macedonia. | | | He also had a profound influence on polity in Buddhist countries as monarchs throughout Asia were encouraged to look to his tolerant humane style of government as an ideal to be followed. |
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http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/dharmadata/fdd9.htm
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| | Asoka |
| | The Buddha tells him that Asoka was an arahant and had realised Nibbana. | | | Once when the Buddha was staying at Ñátiká in the Giñjakávasatha, Ananda mentions to the Buddha that Asoka Thera had died, and asks where he had gone. | | | It was for this Council that the Kathávatthu was written), Asoka sent forth Theras to propagate the Buddha's religion: |
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| | TEMPLE OF ASOKA |
| | Despite Asoka's vigorous exertions in behalf of his faith, he was tolerant of other religions, and India enjoyed marked prosperity during his reign."Asoka," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 97 Encyclopedia. | | | In his efforts to propagate Buddhism, Asoka built shrines and monasteries and inscribed Buddhist teachings on rocks and pillars in many places. | | | He sent missionaries to countries as remote as Greece and Egypt; his own son, a monk, carried Buddhism to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where it is still the major religion. |
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http://sangha.net/messengers/asoka.htm
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| | Asoka |
| | Asoka spread Buddhism as far east as Southeast Asia and as far west as Egypt and Macedonia. | | | Asoka sent out missionaries, or religious teachers, to spread Buddhism. | | | Stories of Asoka's peaceful deeds and life are told in many Buddhist works of literature. |
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http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/ashoka
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| | Asoka -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Generally believed to be the son of the Indian emperor Asoka, he is honoured in Sri Lanka as a founding missionary of that country's majority religion. | | | Its most outstanding ruler was Asoka, a man known more for his contributions to Buddhism than for his role as a monarch. | | | It was against this background of imperial administration and a changing socioeconomic framework that Asoka issued edicts that carried his message concerning the idea and practice of dhamma, the Prakrit form of the Sanskrit dharma, a term that defies simple translation. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9272979?tocId=9272979
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| | Asoka Movie review Webindia123.com |
| | Asoka marries Devi and she introduces Buddhism into Asoka's life. | | | Asoka's mother Dharma (Suhasini Ali) scared for her sons life advises him to leave everything and live as an ordinary citizen. | | | The story, though not biographical is based on the life of the great Mauryan emperor Asoka of ancient India (3rd century BC), a mighty warrior who fought numerous battles and conquered many kingdoms but later turned to Buddhism. |
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http://www.webindia123.com/movie/national/asoka
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| | Asoka1 |
| | The interpretation Asoka gave to the teachings of the Buddha can only be inferred from the inscriptions that remain. | | | But there is also an account of a third Buddhist council convened by Asoka, where an attempt was made to reconcile the practices of the many different Buddhist sects emerging over three centuries. | | | After his conversion, Asoka promulgated the main ethical teachings of the Buddha, expressed in what Asoka referred to as the Dharma. |
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http://www.humanistictexts.org/asoka.htm
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| | Search Tuna Report for asoka |
| | Asoka, grandson of Chandragupta, was one of the first royal patrons of Buddhism.... | | | As legend has it, the battle for Kalinga was so bloody that Asoka renounced war and dedicated his kingdom to Buddhist principles of nonviolence.... | | | In these inscriptions, he proclaimed his belief in ahimsa, or nonviolence and advocated tolerance of all faiths. |
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| | Movie Review : Asoka |
| | She is one of the factors that introduces Buddhism into Asoka’s life, but it is not strong enough to change Asoka from becoming into a ruthless warrior. | | | The message of the movie he is trying to convey to the viewer is what the Buddhist Monk had said “The destiny of a traveller is bigger and better than that of an emperor”. | | | He renounces the path of war and dedicates his life to spreading the light of Buddhism across the world. |
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| | In Asoka |
| | Shortly afterwards, Asoka sent his son (Another source states that it was his younger brother.) Mahinda to Sri Lanka and also missionaries to other countries to propagate the teachings. | | | An inscription on the pillar says that King Asoka, after having been anointed for twenty years, came himself and worshipped this spot, because the Buddha Sakyamuni was born here. | | | Having erected the eighty-four thousand stupas, King Asoka expressed a desire to visit the holy places of his religion. |
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http://www.vipassana.info/_asoka2.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: DVD: Asoka |
| | In the third century B.C., the Mauryan king Asoka built a vast empire by means of ruthless conquest; but after the great Kalinga war he became sickened by the terrible slaughter he had caused, converted to Buddhism and dedicated the rest of his life to spreading peace and prosperity. | | | This was the story of how Asoka found Buddhism. | | | He even leaves the most important detail -- Asoka's conversion to Buddhism... |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005RYLQ
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| | Asoka : Reviews : Movies.123India.com |
| | It is after all these events that Asoka turns to the path of Buddhism and at the same time fulfilling his dead wife’s wish. | | | The reason is that during the battle he comes upon Kaurwaki, the daughter of the King of Kalinga, who unfortunately was killed in the battle. | | | As time passes on he marries another girl named Devi (Hrishita Bhatt) who loves him very much and tries to institute the teachings of Buddhism upon her fierce husband, but everything is in vain. |
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http://movies.123india.com/contemporary/freviews/archives/con_rev_1184.html
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| | Asoka (2001) |
| | Asoka's family sword becomes a representation of the evil that leads him to bring down his reign of destruction on the people of Kalinga. | | | He succeeds, but the terrible death and destruction he witnesses leads him to renounce war altogether and embrace Buddhism. | | | But shame for his ruthless deeds leads him to renounce violence and embrace Buddhism and become a celebrated humanitarian. |
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http://www.kungfucinema.com/reviews/asoka.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Buddhism |
| | It was this element, so prominent in the inscriptions of Asoka, that tempered the severity of Buddha's doctrine of Nirvana and made his system acceptable to the masses. | | | The advocates of this theory pretend that the rock-inscriptions of Asoka bear witness to the spread of Buddhism over the Greek-speaking world as early as the third century B.C., since they mention the flourishing existence of Buddhism among the Yavanas, i.e. | | | In order to secure that extinction of desire which alone could lead to Nirvana, Buddha prescribed for his followers a life of detachment from the comforts, pleasures, and occupations of the common run of men. |
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| | No Frills Review: ASOKA |
| | Finally, this film contains some of the most haunting and terrible visions of a post-battle landscape as Asoka wanders the battlefield of Kalinga, sees Hell in the horrors he has unleashed, and glimpses the Buddha at the moment of his greatest sorrow. | | | Actress Kareena Kapoor alternates smoldering beauty with the pangs of a broken heart, while stalwart companion Danny Denzongpa finally rebels after years of faithful service in the face of Asoka’s crazed empire building. | | | It does feel like a legend come to life as we watch, for example, as young Asoka retrieves his grandfather’s sword from the river after being admonished to lose this “demon sword.” |
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| | rediff.com, Movies: Hype, hoopla & history, but little heart |
| | While Asoka wins the battle Kalinga, he loses his trusted friends, and even his brother who turns to Buddhism. | | | What follows is one of the bloodiest battles with thousands being killed. | | | After my marathon sitting, I am not so sure. |
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http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2001/oct/26asoka.htm
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| | WSWG 16 India Map 1 |
| | It was, by Asoka's own account, his conquest of Kalinga that sickened him of war, and turned him toward the Dharma (Buddhism). | | | His further efforts in the south were missionary, not military: sending his son to transmit Buddhist doctrine to Ceylon. | | | Notice that Ceylon continued to lie outside the Maurya domain. |
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http://www.umass.edu/wsp/conferences/wswg/16/indiamap1.html
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| | [KFCC] Asoka Review |
| | Confronted with the aftermath of his conquest in which hundreds of thousands lost their lives, Asoka is overcome with remorse and renounces the path of war to dedicate his life to spreading the teachings of Buddhism across the world. | | | This is the question that I ask myself after watching Asoka. | | | If any of his other works are as good as his depiction in Asoka, I will definitely be watching more of his movies. |
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http://www.kfccinema.com/reviews/swordplay/asoka/asoka.html
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| | Planet-Bollywood - Film Review - Asoka |
| | Asoka overhears people talking about Kauwaki and goes hunting for her amidst the sea of the dead. | | | A must watch for anyone who enjoys cinema in its richest sense. | | | For all practical purposes Asoka is a winner, and comes through in style mesmerising the audience with its spectacular visuals and searing their souls with its haunting portrayal of truth. |
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http://planetbollywood.com/Film/Asoka
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| | Bollywood Best - hindi cinema movie reviews - Asoka - Shahrukh Khan Kareena Kapoor Hrishitaa Bhat |
| | The film attempts to follow the journey of Asoka from "monarch to monk"(though there is no evidence he become a monk) as is outlined in the beginning. | | | Asoka's marriage to Devi is portrayed, which according to historical sources, did not take place. | | | The struggle for the throne between Asoka (Shah Rukh Khan) and his stepbrother Sushema, his father Bindusara's favourite (Ajith Kumar) and the subsequent interregnum before Ashoka's coronation is a sketchy and ambiguous narration. |
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http://www.idlebrain.com/mumbai/reviews/mr-asoka.html
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| | UNE University Library Electronic Resources FAQ Asoka and Mauryan History |
| | King Asoka and Buddhism: Historical and Literary Studies The full-text of a scholarly work online. | | | Edicts of King Asoka Full text of Asoka's edicts online. | | | Includes material on Asoka, his predecessors and successors. |
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http://www.une.edu.au/library/faqs/hist142_mauryan_history.htm
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| | Asoka, Asoka DVD, Asoka Wallpapers, Asoka Promos, Asoka Ringtones |
| | Confronted by the aftermath of his conquest in which hundreds of thousands lost their lives, Asoka is overcome with remorse and renounces the path of war to dedicate his life to spreading the teachings of Budhism across the world. | | | This film does not claim to be a complete historical account of Asoka’s life but an attempt to follow his journey. | | | Asoka traces the life of Emperor Asoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya who ascended the throne of Magadha in the 3rd century BC. |
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| | Asoka The Book |
| | Even past records have precious little to offer in terms of facts and figures and detailed research reveals a little about this enigmatic emperor's life prior to his conversion to Buddhism. | | | This book should mark the beginning of a new trend in Bollywood. | | | But we know very little about one of the greatest emperors in the world who changed the course of human history. |
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http://asoka.indiatimes.com/book/book.htm
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| | Beck's Incredible Film Festival: Asoka The Great |
| | It's a cinematic odyssey, a supersonic journey to a brave new world, equal parts MOULIN ROUGE, GLADIATOR, MTV and LORD OF THE RINGS, melded into one uniquely Indian feast for the eyes, ears and heart. | | | ASOKA contains all the genre hallmarks of the Bollywood epic -- a dashing hero in love with a beautiful maiden, their love thwarted by circumstances beyond their control. | | | The tale follows the warrior Prince Asoka, whose skill with the sword in battle quenches his thirst for power, until his mother urges him to renounce his violent ways and embark on a quest of self-discovery. |
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http://www.becksincrediblefilmfest.co.nz/m_ashoka.html
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| | Dhamma Messages of Asoka the Great |
| | Even in the past the kings desired that the people should grow in Dhamma. | | | From being called Asoka the Cruel, he was transformed to Dhamma Asoka.By practicing Dhamma and encouraging his people to practice Dhamma, Emperor Asoka’s rule became one of the most benevolent of all times. | | | Amongst the thousands of emperors and kings in the firmament of human history, wrote H.G.Wells, the name of Asoka will shine brightest amongst them all. |
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| | Geschichte Sri Lankas |
| | Unter dem heiligen Bodhi-Bau erlangte Buddha die Erleuchtung. | | | Sohn des indischen Kaisers Asoka zum Buddhismus bekehrt. | | | Zweig des Bodhi-Baumes von Asokas Tochter, der Nonne Sanghamitta |
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| | Asoka |
| | Asoka fights his final battle in Kalinga with which he has a dark connection. | | | Asoka, in the face of harsh reality and the loss of his true love throws himself into battle. | | | Amidst battle he meets Devi who saves his life and obligingly Asoka takes her for wife. |
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| | BBC News SOUTH ASIA Asoka statues unearthed in India |
| | Asoka is believed to have been so horrified by the loss of life in that war that he renounced violence and vowed to spread the message of peace far and wide. | | | Dr Pradhan said the second statue, depicting the king with two of his queens, bore the simple inscription: "The King Asoka". | | | The statues are two of the earliest examples of sculpture ever found in Orissa, which was invaded by Asoka in the third century BC, when it was called Kalinga. |
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| | LODGE ASOKA No.93 |
| | Lodge Asoka No.1148 Scottish Constitution was duly constituted under a Provincial Warrant dated 24th March 1915 A.D. granted by the Most Worshipful the Grand Master of all Scottish Freemasonry in India, M.W.Bro the Hon'ble Mr. | | | Major General Dr. Sir Syed Raza Ali Khan, His Highness, The Nawab of Rampur was installed as the very first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of India. | | | This Home Page is the only part of our site which is a constant - all other pages are updated (at least once a month) so you can be sure to find new material every time you visit (which we hope you will often do!). |
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| | Asoka Basnayake |
| | Asoka Basnayake is also a member of one or more knowledge categories. | | | I am also involved in research in migrant issues and human resource issues particularly on work place bullying. | | | Would you like to submit your query to other members of a category at the same time, in case someone else has the information you need? |
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| | New Straits Times: Asoka@ HighBeam Research |
| | However, after his dismal last effort, One Two Ka Four, (compared to Kuch Kuch Hota Hai), he seems set to regain his title as King Khan. | | | Directed by Santosh Sivan, this three-hour epic told in the typical Hindi movie formula, sees Shah Rukh as a convincing King Asoka, from tyrant to lover. | | | Nevertheless, it is a formula that fans of Hindi movies love, and that made Asoka enjoyable, especially if you are a... |
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| | Asoka Indian Cuisine - Thai Food Restaurant. Selma, California - Home |
| | Asoka Indian Cuisine offers authentic Thai meals in a Middle Eastern atmosphere. | | | If you've got a taste for something spicy and exotic, try our flavorful Thai noodle soups, original Thai curry, and fresh seafood dishes. | | | Stop by or give us a call today. |
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| | Asoka (2001) |
| | Tagline: Only the dead have seen the end of war. | | | Plot Outline: The Epic tale of King Asoka's life. | | | I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it |
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| | Planet-Bollywood - Music Review - Asoka |
| | For those who want to add another great album to their collection, Asoka is definitely worth the buy. | | | Now, only time will tell whether Dreamz Unlimited’s Asoka will fall into the same category, or will it be another flop in the large sea of commercially nonviable home productions? | | | Add to Lagaan’s magic is Gadar, another periodic film that did wonders at the box office. |
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| | Asoka USA — Powerline Communications (PLC) Network Solutions |
| | Asoka engineering teams are located in the United States, as well as in the Far East, to assist in the success of you and your company. | | | Asoka's world-class engineering team is dedicated to PLC and is able to quickly assess your needs and combine PLC along with other networking topologies, giving you the ultimate solution. | | | Asoka can provide a shorter product development time, which translates into faster time-to-market and new profits. |
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| | The Hindu : Sport / Football : Asoka drubs New Venus |
| | Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu | | | Kamesh (22nd minute), Sivakumar (25th and 62nd) and Thangavel scored for AFC, while Abdul Kareem pulled one back for Venus in the 76th minute. | | | The Hindu : Sport / Football : Asoka drubs New Venus |
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| | Asoka - Movie - Hindi (2001) |
| | In self-imposed exile from the kingdom of Magadha, Prince Asoka is intrigued by an old man who informs him even Emperors more.. | | | Bollywood’s proverbial Baadshah Shah Rukh Khan returns to the silver screen with his much-hyped home production Asoka. | | | Will Aamir's historical click at the box office? |
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