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Write brief essay on Inscriptions of Asoka.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Mauryan Empire

The Edicts of Ashoka — a corpus of some thirty-three inscriptions carved on rocks, boulders, cave walls and polished sandstone pillars across the Mauryan empire — are the single most reliable body of evidence for reconstructing the reign of Ashoka (c. 269–232 BCE). They are contemporaneous, in the king's own voice, and free of the…

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