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Known locations of the Pillars of Ashoka [1] The pillars of Ashoka are a series of monolithic columns dispersed throughout the Indian subcontinent, erected—or at least inscribed with edicts —by the 3rd Mauryan Emperor Ashoka the Great, who reigned from c. 268 to 232 BC. [2]
An Ashokan Pillar and stupa to mark the miracle of monkey offering honey to the Buddha.
21 kwi 2022 · The capital on the Lauriya-Nandangarh pillar features a single, seated lion surmounting the pillar, with its hindquarters protruding beyond the round frame of the abacus and a damaged jaw. While the abacus is decorated with the pecking geese motif, the geese are in fact depicted as moving in the clockwise pradakshina direction.
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 Ashoka of the Maurya Empire who ruled most of the Indian subcontinent from 268 BCE to 232 BCE. [1]
Since the 17th century, 150 Ashokan edicts have been found carved into the face of rocks and cave walls as well as the pillars, all of which served to mark his kingdom, which stretched across northern India and south to below the central Deccan plateau and in areas now known as Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.
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