Kunala
Sign in to saveKunala (IAST: ) (263 BC – ?) was the Crown Prince and second son of 3rd Mauryan Emperor Ashoka and Devi and the presumptive heir to Ashoka, thus the heir to the Mauryan Empire which once ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent. After the departure of Mahendra, Ashoka's eldest son, he was supposed to be the heir to the empire, but was blinded by his step-mother, Tishyaraksha, at a young age in jealousy. While he was not able to take the throne, his son, Samprati, became his heir.
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- Born
- 1980
- Works
- 4
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- Itavāra nahīṃ
- Ādigrāma upākhyāna
- Ādigrāma upākhyāna
- Sanātana bābu kā dāmpatya
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- 35
- Total plays
- 75
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5 total works indexed
- Mutation hotspots due to sunlight in the p53 gene of nonmelanoma skin cancers.
· 1993 · cited 552x
- Frequent clones of p53-mutated keratinocytes in normal human skin
· 1996 · cited 521x
- Excision repair at individual bases of the Escherichia coli lacI gene: relation to mutation hot spots and transcription coupling activity.
· 1992 · cited 53x
- Ionizing radiation induces CD20 surface expression on human B cells
· 2001 · cited 31x
- Active site coupling in Plasmodium falciparum GMP synthetase is triggered by domain rotation
· 2015 · cited 29x
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Significance of name
- Early life
- Blinding
- Attempts to claim throne
- Portrayal in popular media
- See also
- References
Kunala (IAST: ) (263 BC – ?) was the Crown Prince and second son of 3rd Mauryan Emperor Ashoka and Devi and the presumptive heir to Ashoka, thus the heir to the Mauryan Empire which once ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent. After the departure of Mahendra, Ashoka's eldest son, he was supposed to be the heir to the empire, but was blinded by his step-mother, Tishyaraksha, at a young age in jealousy. While he was not able to take the throne, his son, Samprati, became his heir.
Kunala also served as the Viceroy of Taxila during the reign of his father, having been appointed to the position in 235 BCE.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kunala” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.