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Kunala (IAST: Kuṇāla) (263 BC – ?) was the Crown Prince and second son of 3rd Mauryan Emperor Ashoka and Empress Padmavati and the presumptive heir to Ashoka, thus the heir to the Mauryan Empire which once ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent.
Kunala Stupa is a Kushan-era Buddhist stupa and monastery complex to the south-east of Taxila, on a hill about 200 meters just south of Sirkap, Punjab, Pakistan, thought to date to the 2nd century CE.
She was as highborn as a woman could be: conceived by one king and lovingly raised by a second after he killed her biological father in battle and took her mother as war plunder. When she came of age, an assembly of men was held in the palace courtyard for her to choose a husband.
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Kunala or Kunāl (Devanāgarī: कुणाल, 3rd Century B.C) was the son of Emperor Ashoka and Queen Padmavati, and presumptive heir to Ashoka, thus the heir to the Mauryan Empire which once ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent.
Kunala ( IAST: Kuṇāla) (263 BC – ?) was the Crown Prince and second son of 3rd Mauryan Emperor Ashoka and Empress Padmavati and the presumptive heir to Ashoka, thus the heir to the Mauryan Empire which once ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent.
Learn about the history and architecture of Kunala Stupa and Monastery, a Buddhist site in Taxila, Pakistan. The site consists of a large stupa with a square base and a dome, and a monastery with a quadrangle and cells.
According to Buddhist and Jaina traditions, Kunala was made blind during the life time of Asoka as a victim of intrigues without the emperor’s knowledge, and therefore, his son Samprati succeeded to the throne after Asoka’s death.
