section_path: Family/Daughters
section_name: Daughters
paragraph_text: Daughters
  
  According to Sri Lankan tradition, Ashoka had a daughter named Sanghamitta, who became a Bhikkhunī. A section of historians, such as Romila Thapar, doubt the historicity of Sanghamitta, based on the following points:
  
  Another source mentions that Ashoka had a daughter named Charumati, who married a kshatriya named Devapala.