Quotes:Piyadasi

H. P. Blavatsky

Piyadasi. “The beautiful”, a title of King Chandragupta (the “Sandracottus” of the Greeks) and of Asoka the Buddhist king, his grandson. They both reigned in Central India between the fourth and third centuries B.C., called also Devânâmpiya, “the beloved of the gods”.

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Piyadasi