Introduction
Tivara was a son of Ashoka and Kaurwaki, notable as one of the few of Ashoka's children named directly in his own contemporary inscriptions rather than only appearing in later Buddhist or Jain legendary tradition.
Family
- Father: Ashoka
- Mother: Kaurwaki
- Siblings: Dasharatha Maurya, Kunala, Mahendra, Sanghamitra
A Rare Contemporary Mention
Most of what is known about Ashoka's children comes from texts composed generations after his reign, making Tivara's appearance in Ashoka's own Queen's Edict — alongside his mother Kaurwaki — unusually direct evidence, even though the edict itself provides little further biographical detail about Tivara's own life or later role, if any, in Maurya politics.
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.