Asoka Priyadarsin
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ASOKA AS A PATRON

During the early days of his conversion, he resolved to donate a thousand million gold pieces to the church to carry on its propagandist activities. For realizing this unearthly hunger for diffusion, he diverted a major part of the revenue towards it. He scrupulously accounted for the various items of expenditure incurred in this connection. Periodical auditing and perpetual vigilance over the manner of spending were given top priority, and he personally attended to them with utmost care. When he grew pretty old, to his great surprise he found that he spent only 960 millions of gold pieces against the target of 1000, he had fixed. The balance of 40 millions remained unredeemed. After all forty millions! It is nothing! An insignificant amount!, he concluded.

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