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    The Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription, also known as the Kandahar Edict of Ashoka and less commonly as the Chehel Zina Edict, is an inscription in the...
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    Major Rock Edicts. Chronologically, the first known edict, sometimes classified as a Minor Rock Edict, is the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription, in Greek...
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    Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription, in Greek and in Aramaic, written in the 10th year of his reign (260 BCE), which is the first known inscription of...
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    Afghanistan. The Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription, discovered in 1958, is the other well-known Greek inscription by Ashoka in the area of Kandahar. It was found...
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    have been incorporated in the Aramao-Iranian version of the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription erected by the Maurya emperor Ashoka (r. 268–232 BCE). They...
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    or godliness) in the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription and the Kandahar Greek Edicts. In the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription he used the Aramaic...
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    most famous are the Kandahar Bilingual Inscription, written in Greek and Aramaic, or the Greek Edicts of Ashoka, also found in Kandahar. Previously, in 1915...
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    the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription), and never mentioning Buddhism, the Buddha or the Sangha. The major rock edits of Ashoka include: Rock Edict...
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    Aristonax. Kandahar Greek Edicts of Ashoka Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription Sophytos Inscription written in Greek probably from Kandahar. Remains of...
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  • famous are the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription, written in Greek and Aramaic, or the Kandahar Greek Edict of Ashoka, also found in Kandahar. In 1932 another...
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    mountains forming the western defence of Kandahar's Old City. This is here that Ashoka's Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription was found. Forty steps, about, lead...
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  • Kandahar Greek Inscription (portions of Rock Edicts 12 and 13in Greek) and Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription (bilingual Greek-Aramaic), in Kandahar...
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    area from the 3rd century BCE due to the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription of Emperor Ashoka. The inscription highlight the facts that some Indians lived...
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    the inscriptions rather use the title "Rajan Priyadasi" ("King Priyadarsi"). It also appears in Greek in the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription (c. 260...
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    Several of the Edicts of Ashoka, such as the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription or the Taxila inscription were written in Aramaic, one of the official...
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    Chil Zena (category Kandahar)
    well known for the discovery of the Indian Emperor Ashoka's Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription on the mountainside, which is still located on in an open-air...
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    John Marshall had discovered the Aramaic Inscription of Taxila. In 1958 the famous Bilingual Kandahar Inscription, written in Greek and Aramaic was discovered...
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    Ashoka (section Inscriptions)
    Maneshra, Shahbazgarhi and Kandahar. However, it is omitted in Ashoka's inscriptions found in the Kalinga region, where the Rock Edicts 13 and 14 have been...
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    Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar Aramaic inscription Pul-i-Darunteh Aramaic inscription Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription Kandahar Greek Edicts...
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  • translation for the central Indian concept of "dharma" in the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription. The original Greek New Testament's "Eusebeia" enters other...
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    include the use of different metal alloys for their coins and the issue of bilingual coinage, using Greek on the obverse and an Indian language (such as Pali)...
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    the central Buddhist and Hindu concept of "dharma" in the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription. Buddhist gravestones from Ptolemaic Egypt have been found...
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    Indo-Scythians India (Herodotus) Indo-Parthian Kingdom Kandahar Greek Inscription Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription Kushan Empire Roman commerce Timeline of Indo-Greek...
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    in Kandahar, on the doorstep to the neighboring Seleucid Empire and Greco-Bactrian kingdom: the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription and the Kandahar Greek...
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    Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar Aramaic inscription Pul-i-Darunteh Aramaic inscription Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription Kandahar Greek Edicts...
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  •  100–09. Taylor, David G. K. (2002). "Bilingualism and Diglossia in Late Antique Syria and Mesopotamia". Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language Contact...
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    discontinued in China proper. The coinage of Kucha includes the "Han Qiu bilingual Wu Zhu coin" (漢龜二體五銖錢, hàn qiū èr tǐ wǔ zhū qián) which has a yet undeciphered...
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    Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar Aramaic inscription Pul-i-Darunteh Aramaic inscription Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription Kandahar Greek Edicts...
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    the legendary Kayanian dynasty, Bactria is mentioned in the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great as one of the satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire;...
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    Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar Aramaic inscription Pul-i-Darunteh Aramaic inscription Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription Kandahar Greek Edicts...
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