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The Edicts of King Ashoka  - http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/ashoka.html  Historical overview of what is known about Ashoka and a translation of his edicts.  Theosophy Library Online - Ashoka  - http://www.theosophy.org/tlodocs/teachers/Ashoka.htm  An outline of his life and origins, his conversion, and his acts.  The Life of Ashoka Mauryan  - http://www.csuchico.edu/~cheinz/syllabi/asst001/spring98/Ashoka.htm  An account of his life, his rise to power, and his conversion and acts. Includes a few relevant pictures.  A Translation of the Edicts of Asoka  - http://www.katinkahesselink.net/tibet/asoka1.html  Description of his life and a translation of Ashoka's rock edicts.  Asoka  - http://www.buddhistcouncil.org/Asoka.htm  Historical information.  The Edicts of King Asoka  - http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma/asoka.html  Historical overview and translation of the edicts.  Alexander the Great  - http://www.geocities.com/ranajitda/  Argues that an Asokan Pillar at Delhi is an altar of Alexander and that an Indian conspiracy assassinated him.  Ashoka  - http://www.freeindia.org/biographies/ashoka/  A short biography.  The Edicts of King Ashoka  - http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/religion/Asoka-edicts.html  A history of the discovery and translation of Ashoka's rock edicts.  Ashoka, King of Behar: The Rock Edicts, c. 257 BCE  - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/ashoka-edicts.html  Excerpts from some of the Rock Edicts Ashoka used to spread Buddhism.  The Unknown Ashoka  - http://www.boloji.com/history/001.htm  A biography by Pradip Bhattacharya detailing Ashoka's conversion to Buddhism.  Ashoka (or Asoka)'s life  - http://www.katinkahesselink.net/tibet/asoka3.html  Extracts from the Rock and Pillar Edicts of the Indian king Ashoka (290-232 BC).  The Edicts of King Asoka  - http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bps/wheels/wheel386.html  A translation by the Buddhist Publication Society of all of the known Rock Edicts of King Asoka.