अशकनि गावनि अन्थायारि लिरथायाव बिथांनि आगु जिउनि सोमोन्दै फोरमायथिया, आऱो बे आयदायाव बांसिन खारिथिखौ बिथांनि जौ-जौ बोसोरनि उनाव लिरनाय फोरमानथि गैयै फोथायारि फोरमायथिनायफ्राय फैयो।
Ashoka's own inscriptions do not describe his early life, and much of the information on this topic comes from apocryphal legends written hundreds of years after him.