List of Edicts of Ashoka

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List of the Edicts of Ashoka
Created3rd century BCE
Present locationIndia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh
Orange ff8040 pog.svg Location of the Minor Rock Edicts (Edicts 1, 2 & 3)
Purple pog.svg Other inscriptions often classified as Minor Rock Edicts.
Brown pog.svg Location of the Major Rock Edicts.
Orange F79A18.svg Location of the Minor Pillar Edicts.
Brown 5C3317.svg Original location of the Major Pillar Edicts.
Red pog.svg Capital cities

The following is an overview of Edicts of Ashoka,[1] and where they are located.

Minor Rock Edict[]

Main article: Minor Rock Edicts

Minor Pillar Edicts[]

Main article: Minor Pillar Edicts
  • Lumbini (Rummindei), Rupandehi district, Nepal (the upper part broke off when struck by lightning; the original horse capital mentioned by Xuanzang is missing)
  • Nigali-Sagar (or Nigliva), near Lumbini, Rupandehi district, Nepal (originally near the Buddha Konakarnana stupa)
  • Sarnath, near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (Pillar Inscription, Schism Edict)
  • Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh (originally located at Kausambi and probably moved to Allahabad by Jahangir; Pillar Edicts I-VI, Queen's Edict, Schism Edict)
  • Sanchi, near Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (Schism Edict)

Major Rock Edicts (set of 14)[]

Main article: Major Rock Edicts

Major Pillar Edicts (set of 7)[]

Main article: Major Pillar Edicts

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Keay 2000

References[]

  • Keay, John (2000). India, a History. New York, United States: Harper Collins Publishers. ISBN 0-00-638784-5.

Further reading[]

External links[]

Edicts of Ashoka
(Ruled 269–232 BCE)
Regnal years
of Ashoka 		Type of Edict
(and location of the inscriptions) 		Geographical location
Year 8 End of the Kalinga war and conversion to the "Dharma"
Orange ff8040 pog.svg Location of the Minor Rock Edicts (Edicts 1, 2 & 3)
Purple pog.svg Other inscriptions often classified as Minor Rock Edicts.
Brown pog.svg Location of the Major Rock Edicts.
Orange F79A18.svg Location of the Minor Pillar Edicts.
Brown 5C3317.svg Original location of the Major Pillar Edicts.
Red pog.svg Capital cities
Year 10[1] Minor Rock Edicts Related events:
Visit to the Bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya
Construction of the Mahabodhi Temple and Diamond throne in Bodh Gaya
Predication throughout India.
Dissenssions in the Sangha
Third Buddhist Council
In Indian language: Sohgaura inscription
Erection of the Pillars of Ashoka
Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription
(in Greek and Aramaic, Kandahar)
Minor Rock Edicts in Aramaic:
Laghman Inscription, Taxila inscription
Year 11 and later Minor Rock Edicts (n°1, n°2 and n°3)
(Panguraria, Maski, Palkigundu and Gavimath, Bahapur/Srinivaspuri, Bairat, Ahraura, Gujarra, Sasaram, Rajula Mandagiri, Yerragudi, Udegolam, Nittur, Brahmagiri, Siddapur, Jatinga-Rameshwara)
Year 12 and later[1] Barabar Caves inscriptions Major Rock Edicts
Minor Pillar Edicts Major Rock Edicts in Greek: Edicts n°12-13 (Kandahar)

Major Rock Edicts in Indian language:
Edicts No.1 ~ No.14
(in Kharoshthi script: Shahbazgarhi, Mansehra Edicts
(in Brahmi script: Kalsi, Girnar, Sopara, Sannati, Yerragudi, Delhi Edicts)
Major Rock Edicts 1-10, 14, Separate Edicts 1&2:
(Dhauli, Jaugada)
Schism Edict, Queen's Edict
(Sarnath Sanchi Allahabad)
Lumbini inscription, Nigali Sagar inscription
Year 26, 27
and later[1] 		Major Pillar Edicts
In Indian language:
Major Pillar Edicts No.1 ~ No.7
(Allahabad pillar Delhi pillar Topra Kalan Rampurva Lauria Nandangarh Lauriya-Araraj Amaravati)

Derived inscriptions in Aramaic, on rock:
Kandahar, Edict No.7[2][3] and Pul-i-Darunteh, Edict No.5 or No.7[4]

  1. ^ a b c Yailenko,Les maximes delphiques d'Aï Khanoum et la formation de la doctrine du dhamma d'Asoka, 1990, p. 243.
  2. ^ Inscriptions of Asoka de D.C. Sircar p. 30
  3. ^ Handbuch der Orientalistik de Kurt A. Behrendt p. 39
  4. ^ Handbuch der Orientalistik de Kurt A. Behrendt p. 39
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