Ashoka

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Gender Masculine
Usage Sanskrit
Scripts अशोक(Sanskrit)

Meaning & History

Means "without sorrow" in Sanskrit, from अ (a) meaning "not" and शोका (śokā) meaning "sorrow, grief". This name was borne by Ashoka (or Aśoka) the Great, a 3rd-century BC emperor of the Maurya Empire in northern India.