King Ashoka was a highly legendary king. There is a religious mythological story about his birth. In the Sanskrit collection of Buddhist stories, the Sutra of the Heavenly Parables, there is a story called "Yeh Offering Earth" about a young boy named Yeh who was playing on the street one day when he happened to meet the Buddha begging. He had nothing to give to the Buddha, so he innocently picked up a handful of sand and earth and offered it to him. The boy who offered the sand was later reincarnated as Emperor Ashoka of the Peacock Dynasty, who ruled over the vast lands of India. As the grandson of King Chandragupta, the pioneer of the Peacock Dynasty in India, Ashoka followed in the tradition of his grandparents' warlike expansion and united the whole of India except for the southern tip of the Indian Peninsula during his reign.