Introduction
Kaurwaki was a queen of Ashoka, notable as one of the few of his wives named in his own contemporary inscriptions rather than only in later legendary tradition, specifically in the edict known as the Queen's Edict.
Family
- Spouse: Ashoka (married)
- Children: Tivara
Named in Stone, Not Just Legend
Unlike most of the women associated with the Maurya court, whose identities depend on later Buddhist or Jain texts composed well after the events they describe, Kaurwaki's connection to Ashoka and to her son Tivara comes directly from Ashoka's own contemporary inscriptional record, making her one of the historically best-attested royal women of the period in the strictest evidentiary sense.
This article records the Maurya Empire (c. 4th-2nd century BCE) as historical genealogy reconstructed from Ashoka's own rock and pillar edicts, Greek and Latin accounts of contact with the Mauryas, and later Buddhist, Jain and Puranic traditions composed well after the events they describe; where these traditions genuinely disagree, that disagreement is noted rather than resolved into invented certainty.