Originally posted by: Salutethearmy
I liked the characterization of Devi today, she was one badass queen. Don't know about the others but Ashok married her when he himself was very young.
The desire to conquer the world, ferocious attitude, respect, pride etc must have come from her.
Ashok had inferiority and abandonment issues I presume Devi played a significant part in shaping his personality.
Eventually her children Mahendra and Sangamitra spread Buddhism across continents.
Yet the real Ashoka turned out to have a torture house and burn his concubines and killed another hundreds of ministers or brothers because of a slight inconvenience or for religious purposes or opposing Buddhism. Ashoka's story is conflicted at times, some said the Buddhists portrayed him as bad others that he was not that bad and that his edicts just glorify him ignoring his negative side.