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	Encyclopedia: Ashoka
		Ashoka the Great (also Asoka, अशोक Aśoka; pronounced Ashok, even though there is an 'a' at the end) was the ruler of the Mauryan empire from 273 BC to 232 BC.
		Ashoka was the son of the Mauryan emperor Bindusara by a relatively lower ranked Queen known as Dharma.
		Ashoka defined the main principles of dharma (dhamma in PÄli) as nonviolence, tolerance of all sects and opinions, obedience to parents, respect for the Brahmans and other religious teachers and priests, liberality towards friends, humane treatment of servants, and generosity towards all.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ashoka (5414 words)

	The Ashoka Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ashoka is represented by the strong, sturdy oak tree.
		the oak is a tree common in village greensý a tree to gather under, to talk and share underý it therefore also represents the Fellowship dimensions of Ashoka.
		a tree of the temperate regions and as Ashoka, the organization, is more associated with the world's south, having a tree of the north seems appropriate to represent our global dimension.
	www.ashoka.org /what_is/tree.cfm (177 words)

	Tree
		Tree heath Ref: ITIS 505949 The Tree Heath is a shrub or small evergreen tree with a height of 1-4 (-7) m.
		Tree house A tree house is a house that is built among the branches of a mature tree.
		Wait-a-minute tree A wait-a-minute tree (Acacia greggii) is a tree of the genus Acacia.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/tree.html (2989 words)

	The Bodhi Tree
		The earliest records on the tree are in the 'Kalingabodhi Jataka', which gives a vivid description of the tree and the surrounding area prior to the Enlightenment, and the 'Asokavadana', which relates the story of King Asoka's (3rd century B.C) conversion to Buddhism.
		Ashoka's daughter Sangamitta, a Buddhist nun, took a shoot of the tree to Sri Lanka where the King, Devanampiyatissa, planted it at the Mahavihara monastery in Anuradhapura.
		I next saw the tree in 1871 and again in 1875, when it had become completely decayed, and shortly afterwards in 1876 the only remaining portion of the tree fell over the west wall during a storm, and the old pipal tree was gone.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/bodhidharma/bodhi_tree.html (694 words)

	flora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A moderate sized tree with straight sharp strong spines.Leaves aromatic,alternate,pinnately compound.Leaflets 5-7 in number,smaller in size.Flowers small,many,dull red in colour,arranged in panicles.Stamens 10-12.Fruit is globose in shape,hard,woddy,rough and grey coloured.Seeds are embedded in edible pulp.
		The tree is cultivated in monoculture plantations for the timber.
		Vitex altissima L.F. A densely leafy deciduous tree.
	ces.iisc.ernet.in /fish/flora.html (3660 words)

	Category:Trees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A tree can be defined as a large woody perennial plant.
		Though there is no set definition of size, it is generally at least 4.5 m (15 ft) high at maturity, and with branches supported on a single main stem.
		Trees are important components of the natural landscape and significant elements in landscaping.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Trees (134 words)

	Trees
		Cut from straight cedar six years earlier, the tree was carved in the shape of an obelisk, a half-dorje carved at the bottom, and a stupa carved at the top.
		The presence of a particularly bountiful tree may have given rise to the idea that a deity is present who offers her blessings in the form of the fruit, as in the case of the tamarind tree where Puliyidaivalaiyamman is worshipped, or the kadamba tree that is associated with a deity called Kadambariyamman.
		It is a tree that grows up like most others of its kind, but also down as aerial roots which emerge from the branches descend to implant themselves in the soil.
	www.khandro.net /nature_trees.htm (5827 words)

	The Unknown Ashoka by Pradip Bhattacharya
		Ashoka, it seems, realized that he would never be able to match the Nagas in their devotion, and this is shown on the bas-reliefs at the Sanchi and Amaravati stupas.
		Now, in Ashoka’s palace lived a servant girl who was sorrowful for she thought that Ashoka had become so great because of the meritorious acts he had done in the past life, while her being destitute was undoubtedly the result of bad deeds in her earlier lives.
		Ashoka was desperate to be known as the greatest of all donors to the Faith of the Buddha.
	www.boloji.com /history/001a.htm (5410 words)

	Ashoka tree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ashoka tree is a flowering tree considered sacred throughout India and Sri Lanka where it is found.
		The Lord Buddha was born under this tree in Lumbini.
		The tree gets a mention in the Ramayana as the Ashoka Vatika (garden of Ashoka trees) where Hanuman first meets Sita.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashoka_tree (206 words)

	Ashoka Fellow Profile - Craig Esbeck
		Mango Tree contributes free materials–equal to roughly 10 percent of the day's workshop sales–to the NCC Resource Center.
		Craig registered Mango Tree as a sole proprietorship because it was the quickest and simplest form of registration, allowing him to get on with his work.
		Mango Tree has been enlisted as a consultant on instructional materials development and creative teaching by many local, national, and international institutions and educators, including the Forest Exploration Center of Mount Elgon National Park, Child Restoration Outreach, Save the Children USA, World Learning, and World Vision.
	www.ashoka.org /fellows/viewprofile3.cfm?reid=144023 (1400 words)

	Ashoka tree -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Lord (Founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC)) Buddha was born under this tree in Lumbini.
		The tree gets a mention in the Ramayana as the Ashoka Vatika (garden of Ashoka trees) where (In Hinduism, the monkey god and helper of Rama; god of devotion and courage) Hanuman first meets (Wife of the Hindu god Rama; regarded as an ideal of womanhood) Sita.
		It belongs to the Caesalpaeniaceae family and is a very handsome, small, erect evergreen tree, with deep green foliage.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/as/ashoka_tree.htm (203 words)

	Devi: The Great Goddess
		The ashoka tree, popularly associated with the flowering of a woman's foot, is celebrated repeatedly in Sanskrit poems and dramas.
		Poised beneath a mango tree this exquisite sundari (beauty) ignores the monkey perched on the branch above and reaches up with her right arm to bring down a cluster of ripe fruit into her raised, now-damaged, left hand.
		According to ancient lore, the sound of a woman's laughter was all that was needed to induce the mango tree to blossom and bear fruit.
	www.asia.si.edu /devi/text6.htm (736 words)

	Symbols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Ashoka Tree is a tree with a beneficial name, because it derives from an Indian word "Ashok", after the name of King Ashok, the Great, the most well known king during Buddha's time, full of wisdom both in the secular and religious realms.
		Lastly, it is the tree first brought from India into Thailand in 1957 by the St.Gabriel Foundation of Thailand, patrons of this university (by Bro.
		This first tree was planted in the compound of St. Gabriel's College, and the Forestry Department of Thailand named it "St. Gabriel Ashoka" on 15 th December 1969.
	www.au.ac.th /general_info/symbols.html (456 words)

	Ashoka--The Sorrowless Tree of India
		Ashoka is one of the most legendary and sacred trees of India, and one of the most fascinating flowers in the Indian range of flower essences.
		Ashoka is also seen as a remedy for women, allowing them to be feminine.
		The tree is regarded as a guardian of female chastity.
	www.essences.com /vibration/sept98/ashoka.html (860 words)

	National Gardening Association :: Regional Reports
		Sorrow-less tree or Ashoka (Saraca indica) is sacred to the Buddhists because Buddha was supposed to have been born under it.
		Many of these trees continue to be quite rare, but flowering tree societies are helping to spread the word, through meetings, sales, and lectures.
		This tree is sacred to the Buddhists because Buddha was supposed to have been born under it.
	www.garden.org /regional/report/arch/inmygarden/874 (276 words)

	The Unknown Ashoka by Pradip Bhattacharya
		A very different Ashoka comes before us in the Sanskrit Ashokaavadaana, a 1st century A.D. work which was translated into Chinese twice: the A-yu wang chuan around 300 A.D. and the A-yu wang ching circa 500 A.D. It is essentially a Hinayana text and its world is that of Mathura and North-west India.
		They smeared Ashoka with turmeric, boiled some red lac in copper vessels and displayed it, saying that the prince was so ill that he could not move out of bed.
		The king saw an ashoka tree in full bloom, and told his women, “See this is my namesake and how beautiful it is!” He wanted to be caressed by them, but the women disliked his rough skin and secretly mocked his comparing himself with the lovely tree.
	www.boloji.com /history/001.htm (3519 words)

	Mahavira and Buddha by Sanderson Beck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ashoka admitted in Rock Edict 13 that eight years after his consecration as king when "Kalinga was conquered, 150,000 people were deported, 100,000 were killed, and many times that number died."10 Yet after that, Ashoka was converted to justice (dharma), which he loved and taught.
		Ashoka renounced the violence of war, stating that he would have to bear all that could be borne.
		Ashoka's emphasis was on ethical action rather than ritual and ceremonies, which he found of little use.
	www.san.beck.org /GPJ3-Mahavira,Buddha.html (12998 words)

	Ashoka Chakra Dictionary
		Ashoka Chakra Dictionary is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Sita was held in a grove of ashoka trees by Ravana.
		Tree of moderate size belonging to the leguminous class, with magnificent red flowers.
	www.experiencefestival.com /ashoka_chakra_dictionary (1016 words)

	The Hindu : Metro Plus Chennai / Green Notes : Fact and fallacy about the Asoka tree
		We are often tempted to identify the tall, well-pruned trees in parks as "Asoka trees" but they are actually the `nettilingams' or the mast tree and known in botanical parlance as Polyalthia longifolia, of the family Annonaceae.
		That is why the tree is regarded as a symbol of love and is dedicated to Kama Deva, who is known to kindle passion and love in the human heart.
		Numerous legends are attributed to this tree and it is sacred to the Buddhists and the Hindus who plant this tree around their temples.
	www.hindu.com /mp/2005/11/22/stories/2005112200470600.htm (730 words)

	Valmiki Ramayana - Aranya Kanda
		The trees of that woodland are seemingly weeping, as their flowers are witheringly weakening and their birds are weepingly warbling, and the animals are whingeingly weeping, and that woodland is charmless and utterly shattered, since its georgic deities have completely abandoned it.
		Rama ran speedily from tree to shrub, from hill to hillock, from river to rivulet, and revolving around them he wailed for Seetha, as he is inundated in a sludgy ocean of woes.
		you trees, though you may not have rushed to rescue her, as you are pegged on ground, you indicate to me, at least with your branchy gestures, what exactly has happened...
	www.valmikiramayan.net /aranya/sarga60/aranyaitrans60.htm (3960 words)

	The Sidereus Foundation - Every Woman A Goddess
		In a delightful vein it is conjectured that the kick of a woman is sufficient and necessary for blossoms to spring from the sacred Ashoka tree.
		A tree that has come to flower or fruit will not be cut down; it is treated as a mother, a woman who has given birth.
		It is interesting to note here that decoctions made from the bark of the same Ashoka tree are used to soothe menstrual cramps and excessive blood loss during menstruation.
	sidereus.org /main/article.php?sid=95 (4070 words)

	Search Tuna Report for asoka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ashoka had become a lay Buddhist I had been a follower of the Buddha....
		Content aside, Ashoka's texts have survived because they were cut into rock; the Fourteen Rock Texts in boulders cliff faces, while the Pillars of which 10 are known and at least 6 lost were cut from the stone quarries of the Chunar Hills near Banaras....
		The edicts carved for Ashoka, with a clearly permanent intent, upon imperishable rock, the inscriptions upon the pillars of inimitably polished sandstone which he set up throughout his vast dominions, yield a new concept of kingship and indeed of the nature of man....
	www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/622.html (1992 words)

	Tree Trivia-Legends-Festivals-spirituality - Indiatimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This tree, which emerged out of the cosmic ocean when gods and demons churned it, caused envy among Krishna's wives.
		Betel nut, the hard oval fruit of a tall tree, is worshipped at Hindu religious ceremonies.
		In some places, a bride is symbolically married to a peepal tree before the actual marriage ceremony to avoid bad luck.
	spirituality.indiatimes.com /articlelist/-1799582831.cms (364 words)

	herb data, Ashoka, Sarca indica, Ashoka Tree, Anganapriya, holisticonline.com
		Ashoka Tree, Anganapriya, Asogam, Asokada, Ashopalava, Asok, Asoka, Asoka Tree, Asupala, Gandapushpa, Kankelli, Kenkalimara, Thawgabo, Vichitrah
		This is one of the sacred trees of India.
		Bark of asoka tree is useful in internal bleeding hemorrhoids and hemorrhagic dysentery.
	www.holisticonline.com /Herbal-med/_Herbs/h120.htm (267 words)

	N H P India :: Our Products :: Lukona
		Menstrual irregularities and Leucorrhoea - Fortified with 'Ashoka'..
		Janosia Ashoka (Ashoka tree - Indian) : Relieves weakness and physical emaciation of females suffering from long lasting uterine complaints.
		Indicated especially in cases of irregular menses; delayed, scanty, or excessive menses; amenorrhoea at puberty, metrorrhagia (spotting), menstrual colic (pain) and leucorrhoea.
	www.nhpindia.com /cntnt/22-19.shtml (425 words)

	Kalidasa: Shakuntala and Other Works: The Two Minor Dramas: I.--Malavika And Agnimitra
		This kind of tree, so the belief runs, can be induced to put forth blossoms if touched by the foot of a beautiful woman in splendid garments.
		Word is brought that the army despatched against the king of Vidarbha has been completely successful, and that in the spoil are included two maids with remarkable powers of song.
		These maids are brought before the company gathered at the tree, where they surprise every one by falling on their faces before Malavika with the exclamation, "Our princess!" Here the Buddhist nun takes up the tale.
	www.sacred-texts.com /hin/sha/sha13.htm (1877 words)

	`RAVANA: A NON VIOLENT "GANA-NAYAKA", (CHIEF OF REPUBLICS) CONTEMPORARY WITH THE BUDDHA.' Chapter 6 of "Patana" by L. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sidhartha Gautam Buddha belongs to Shakya Gana of Adivasis having totem of the tree of Salai and Gautam means a bull which was his totem.
		The totem of Ashoka was the Ashoka tree and peacock, today's national bird, was the totem of his Maurya gana and was being worshipped during Buddha's times.
		It appears therefore that to liberate Sita was his secondary aim and the main aim was to destroy the culture of non violence of Ravana.
	www.dalitstan.org /books/patana/patana6.html (1928 words)

	RAMAYANA SUNDAR KAND - HANUMANA MEETS SITA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Then Sita requested the Ashoka tree to prove the virtue of its name by removing all of her sorrows.
		He had seen that the trees of Ashok Vatika were ladden with fruits.
		When Hanumana saw Meghanaad coming with his army, he again uprooted a huge tree and threw it at them.
	www.urday.com /rmeet.htm (659 words)

	Temples of the Gangetic Plains
		Sarnath - where Buddha preached his first sermon Ashoka's relics are seen in the Buddhist pilgrimage of Sarnath center near Varanasi.
		Dakshinaarka Sun Temple at Gaya This ancient Sun temple in the pilgrimage town of Gaya is the center of worship on Sundays.
		Naimisaranya - Abode of the Sages Naimisaranya - the in Uttar Pradesh is where the great epics of India were recited and written down.
	www.templenet.com /ganges.html (382 words)

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		Plant Family: Belongs to the Caesalpiniaceae family, a mostly tropical and subtropical family, which includes the Orchid Tree (Bauhinia variegata), Flamboyant (Delonix regia) and Yellow Flamboyant (Peltophorum pterocarpum); (is sometimes classified in the Fabaceae family)
		Origin and Distribution: Native to India where it occurs up to an elevation of 750 m (2500 ft) in the central and eastern Himalayas and in the Khasi, Garo and Lushai hills
		Uses: Bark of Saraca tree used for its medicinal value, is reported to have stimulating effect on uterine and ovarian tissue; in India, is said to be useful in several ailments, including menstrual cramps, some cases of uterine bleeding, uterine fibroids, hemorrhoids, and internal bleeding.
	www.da-academy.org /dagardens_saraca1.html (155 words)

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