1. Asoká.-A nun of Ńátiká. When Ananda announces her death to the Buddha at Ńátiká in the Gińjakávasatha, and inquires where she had been born, the Buddha says that she had been reborn spontaneously in the Suddhávásá, there to pass away, destined never to return. S.v.358.
2. Asoká.-One of the two chief women disciples of Mangala Buddha. Bu.iv.24; J.i.34.