In his inscriptions Ashoka called himself (a) Devanampriya Priyadarshi King (b) Ashoka Priyadarshi (c) Dhammasoka (Dharmasoka) (d) Daivaputra
option A. Ashoka refers to himself as "Beloved of the Gods" (Devanampiya). The identity of Devanampiya with Ashoka became showed with the aid of using an inscription observed in 1915 through C. Beadon, a British gold-mining engineer, at Maski, a village in Raichur district of Karnataka.
