Ashoka dispatches missionaries abroad, particularly to Tamraparni,…

297 BCE to 286 BCE

Ashoka dispatches missionaries abroad, particularly to Tamraparni, the kingdom ruling the island now known as Sri Lanka.

Ashoka is said to have sent his own son, Mahinda, as a missionary there.

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