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Ashok
Ashok Named for the emperor who converted his empire's war machine into a vehicle of dharmic compassion, Ashok suggests a character who has known great violence or sorrow — and been transformed by it. In fiction such characters often undergo dramatic moral conversions, arriving at hard-won peace through catastrophe.
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