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Nov 19, 2008
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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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