Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Asoka

of Magadha. In the third century the “nursing father” of Buddhism, as Constantine was of Christianity. He is called “the king beloved of the gods.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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