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    The Edicts of Ashoka are a collection of more than thirty inscriptions on the Pillars of Ashoka, as well as boulders and cave walls, attributed to Emperor...
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    brutal war. Ashoka subsequently devoted himself to the propagation of "dhamma" or righteous conduct, the major theme of the edicts. Ashoka's edicts suggest...
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  • The following is an overview of Edicts of Ashoka, and where they are located. Kandahar, Afghanistan Lampaka, Afghanistan Bahapur, Delhi Bairat, near Jaipur...
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    inscriptions of any Indian monarch. These edicts are preceded chronologically by the Minor Rock Edicts. Ashoka was the third monarch of the Maurya Empire...
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    Edicts of Ashoka (r. 269–233 BCE) are rock inscriptions which form the earliest part of the Edicts of Ashoka, and predate Ashoka's Major Rock Edicts....
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    Sanskrit: धर्म, romanized: dharma) is a set of edicts that formed a policy of the 3rd Mauryan emperor Ashoka the Great, who succeeded to the Mauryan throne...
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    pillars of Ashoka are a series of monolithic columns dispersed throughout the Indian subcontinent, erected—or at least inscribed with edicts—by the 3rd...
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    The Kandahar Greek Edicts of Ashoka are among the Major Rock Edicts of the Indian Emperor Ashoka (reigned 269-233 BCE), which were written in the Greek...
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    The Ashokan edicts in Delhi are a series of edicts on the teachings of Buddha created by Ashoka, the Mauryan Emperor who ruled in the Indian subcontinent...
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    The Major Pillar Edicts of Indian Emperor Ashoka refer to 7 separate major Edicts of Ashoka inscribed on columns (the Pillars of Ashoka), which are significantly...
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    on a number of edicts of Ashoka the Great, most prominent among which is the Lion Capital of Ashoka. The most visible use of the Ashoka Chakra today...
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    of the Edicts of Ashoka. Map of the Buddhist missions during the reign of Ashoka. Territories "conquered by the Dharma" according to Major Rock Edict...
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    The Minor Pillar Edicts of Indian Emperor Ashoka refer to 4 separate minor Edicts of Ashoka (Schism Edict, Queen's Edict, 2 Commemorative inscriptions)...
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    BCE. They contain some of the most important of the Edicts of Ashoka. The inscription in Khalsi contains all the Major Rock Edicts, from 1 to 14. They were...
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    containing one of the pillar edicts of Ashoka, erected by Ashoka, emperor of the Maurya dynasty, who reigned in the 3rd century BCE. While it is one of the few...
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  • edicts (the fragments of the 8th and 9th major rock edicts) of Ashoka in 1882 prove the importance of this port town from the 3rd century BCE to the 9th...
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    Mansehra Rock Edicts are fourteen edicts of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, inscribed on rocks in Mansehra in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The edicts are cut into...
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    Yona (category Ancient peoples of Pakistan)
    mention of the "Yauna" in the Persepolis Administrative Archives (550–333 BC). The mention of the "Yona king Aṃtiyoka" in the Edicts of Ashoka (280 BCE)...
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    form by the 3rd century BCE where it appears in some of the Edicts of Ashoka. The Edicts of Ashoka (circa 250 BCE) may show Achaemenid influences, including...
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    considered to be a part of Ashoka's Minor Rock Edicts (consequently dubbed "Minor Rock Edict No. 4"), in contrast to his Major Rock Edicts, which contain portions...
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    Brahmi script (category Linguistic history of India)
    well-documented period of Indian history. Ashoka left us a series of great inscriptions (major rock edicts, minor rock edicts, pillar edicts) which are among...
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    Kalingans. — Ashoka, Rock Edict No. 13 Ashoka's response to the Kalinga War is recorded in the Edicts of Ashoka. The Kalinga War prompted Ashoka, already...
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    Palkigundu and Gavimath, Koppal (category Edicts of Ashoka)
    achieve something if they put the effort. List of Edicts of Ashoka - Minor Rock Edicts Edicts of Ashoka Maski Kanaganahalli Sannati "Message on a rock...
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    Delhi-Topra pillar (category Edicts of Ashoka)
    The Delhi-Topra pillar is one of the pillars of Ashoka, inscribed with the moral edicts promulgated by Ashoka, the Mauryan Emperor who ruled in the Indian...
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    Beloved-of-the-Gods' instructions in Dhamma. — S. Dhammika, Edicts of Ashoka, Rock Edict No. 13 Far from just being on the receiving end of conversion...
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    Aramaic. Ashoka's edicts refer to the Greeks, Kambojas, and Gandharas as peoples forming a frontier region of his empire. They also attest to Ashoka's having...
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    construct a succession of Hittite Kings. It also recounts Mursili I's conquest of Babylon. Edicts of Ashoka, by the Mauryan emperor, Ashoka, during his reign...
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  • Yojana (category Obsolete units of measurement)
    India define Yojana as ranging from 3.5 to 15 km. Ashoka, in his Major Rock Edict No.13, gives a distance of 600 yojanas between the Maurya empire, and "where...
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    in the Indian subcontinent are the Edicts of Ashoka of the 3rd century BCE, in the Brahmi script. If epigraphy of proto-writing is included, undeciphered...
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    inventions. One evidence in favor of this view is that the form dipi was used in some of the Kharosthi-script edicts of Ashoka (3rd century BCE) in northwest...
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