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| [[File:Devanampiya Piyadasi inscriptions.jpg|thumb|300px|Various "Devanampiya Piyadasi" inscriptions on the [[Pillars of Ashoka]]]]
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| [[File:Devanampriyasa Asoka.jpg|thumb|300px|"Devฤnaแนpiyasa Asoka", honorific Devanampiya ([[Brahmi script]]: ๐ค๐๐ฏ๐ธ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐บ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐
๐ฒ๐๐, "Beloved of the God", in the adjectival form -sa) and name of [[Ashoka]], in [[Brahmi script]], in the [[Maski]] [[Edict of Ashoka]]]]
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| [[File:Devanampiyena in the Lumbini Edict of Ashoka.jpg|thumb|300px|"Devฤnampiyena" (๐ค๐๐ฏ๐ธ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐บ๐ฌ๐๐ฆ:"Of Devanampiya") in the [[Lumbini]] [[Minor Pillar Edict]] of Ashoka. [[Brahmi script]]]]
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| '''Devanampriya''', also '''Devanampiya'''ย ([[Devanagari]]: เคฆเฅเคตเคจเคพเคฎเคชเฅเคฐเคฟเคฏ ) ([[Brahmi script]]: ๐ค๐๐ฏ๐ธ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐บ๐ฌ, ''Devฤnaแนpiya''), was a [[Pali]] honorific epithet used by a few Indian monarchs, but most particularly the 3rd Mauryan Emperor [[Ashoka The Great]] (r.269-233 BCE) in his inscriptions (the [[Edicts of Ashoka]]).<ref name=CSH/> "Devanampriya" means "Beloved of the Gods".ย It is often used by Ashoka in conjunction with the title ''[[Priyadasi]]'', which means "He who regards others with kindness", "Humane".<ref name=CSH/>
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| However, this title was used by a number of Ceylonese kings from [[Uttiya of Anuradhapura|Uttiya]] to Yasalalakatissa from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century CE.<ref>Nicholas, C.W (1949). The titles of Sinhalese kings. ''University of Ceylon Review.'Pages 235-248' http://dlib.pdn.ac.lk/bitstream/123456789/947/1/Mr.Nicholas%2CC.W.pdf</ref>
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| The Kalsi version of the [[Major Rock Edicts|Major Rock Edict No.8]] also uses the title "Devampriyas" to describe previous kings (whereas the other versions use the term "Kings"), suggesting that the title "Denampriya" had a rather wide usage and might just have meant "King".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beckwith |first1=Christopher I. |title=Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia |date=2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9781400866328 |pages=235โ236 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RlCUBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA236 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Inscriptions of Asoka. New Edition by E. Hultzsch |date=1925 |page=37 Note 3 |url=https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOfAsoka.NewEditionByE.Hultzsch/HultzschCorpusAsokaSearchable#page/n173/mode/2up |language=Sanskrit}}</ref>
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| [[James Prinsep|Prinsep]] in his study and decipherment of the [[Edicts of Ashoka]] had originally identified Devanampriya Priyadasi with the King of Ceylon [[Devanampiya Tissa of Anuradhapura]]. However, in 1837, [[George Turnour]] discovered Sri Lankan manuscripts ([[Dipavamsa]], or "Island Chronicle" ) associating Piyadasi with Ashoka:
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| {{quote|"Two hundred and eighteen years after the beatitude of the [[Buddha]], was the inauguration of Piyadassi, .... who, the grandson of Chandragupta, and the son of Bindusara, and was at the time Governor of [[Ujain|Ujjayani]]."|[[Dipavamsa]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Allen |first1=Charles |title=Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor |date=2012 |publisher=Little, Brown Book Group |isbn=9781408703885 |page=79 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K4vHjbUtf_4C&pg=PT79 |language=en}}</ref>}}
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| Since then, the association of "Devanampriya Priyadarsin" with Ashoka was reinforced through various inscriptions, and especially confirmed in the [[Minor Rock Edict]] inscription discovered in [[Maski]], associating Ashoka with Devanampriya:<ref name=CSH>{{cite book |title=The Cambridge Shorter History of India |publisher=CUP Archive |page=42 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9_48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA42 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gupta |first1=Subhadra Sen |title=Ashoka |date=2009 |publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=9788184758078 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L5ru08et_ZAC&pg=PT13 |language=en}}</ref>
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| [A proclamation] of '''''Devanampriya Asoka'''''.<br>
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| Two and a half years [and somewhat more] (have passed) since I am a Buddha-Sakya.<br>
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| [A year and] somewhat more (has passed) [since] I have visited the Samgha and have shown zeal.<br>
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| Those gods who formerly had been unmingled (with men) in Jambudvipa, have how become mingled (with them).<br>
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| This object can be reached even by a lowly (person) who is devoted to morality.<br>
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| One must not think thus, โ (viz.) that only an exalted (person) may reach this.<br>
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| Both the lowly and the exalted must be told : "If you act thus, this matter (will be) prosperous and of long duration, and will thus progress to one and a half.
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| |Maski inscription of Ashoka.<ref>{{cite book |title=Inscriptions of Asoka. New Edition by E. Hultzsch |date=1925 |pages=174โ175 |url=https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOfAsoka.NewEditionByE.Hultzsch/HultzschCorpusAsokaSearchable#page/n353/mode/2up |language=Sanskrit}}</ref>}}
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| ;Historical Usage
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| Devฤnaแนpiya may refer to:
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| *[[Devanampiya Tissa of Anuradhapura]] (died 267 BCE), ruler of Sri Lanka based at the ancient capital of Anuradhapura from 307 to 267 BC
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| *[[Ashoka]] (ca. 304โ232 BCE), Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty
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| *[[Dasharatha Maurya]] (ca. 232 to 224 BCE), grandson of Ashoka, in his [[Barabar caves]] inscriptions, in the form "Devanampiya Dasaratha"
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| *Vฤแนavar aแนpaแน, early Tamil for "the One who is Loved by the Gods" - title of a Tamil [[Chera dynasty|Chera]] chieftain of early historic south India
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