Bindusara

Following this, Ashoka was stationed at Ujjayini as governor.sfn Bindusara's death in 272 BCE led to a war over succession.

The Ashokavadana recounts Radhagupta's offering of an old royal elephant to Ashoka for him to ride to the Garden of the Gold Pavilion where King Bindusara would determine his successor.

The Divyāvadāna tells a similar story, but gives the name of the queen as Janapadakalyānī. citation sfn Ashoka had several elder siblings, all of whom were his half-brothers from the other wives of Bindusara.

This may have been an incident in Bindusara 's times.