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Large rock with Ashoka inscriptions (behind the house) at Jaugada in 1895
Plan of the ancient settlement
Coordinates: 19°31′21″N 84°49′51″E / 19.522602°N 84.830885°E / 19.522602; 84.830885
Jaugada ("Jaugarh", ancient Samapa]) is a ruined fortress in the Ganjam district in Odisha, India. Jaugada lies 35 km north-west of Berhampur and 160 km south-west of Bhubaneshwar. Once a provincial Mauryan fortified capital of the newly conquered province of Kalinga, Jaugada is famed by its version of the monumental stone-cut edicts in Prakrit of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka.
Despite J.D. Beglar's description during the later 19th century of the extant fortification towers and moat ("The walls had towers, also of earth, at each of the four corners, and also on each flank of each of the eight entrances"), without photos and drawings, the remains are difficult to visualize and comprehend. In 1956 Debala Mitra of the Archaeological Survey of India transected the northern glacis with a trench. The now collapsed trench of this investigation appears to lie just east of the eastern gate of the north wall. It is near the great Shiva temple Kaleswar & Rameswar (which is known as a temple where Shiva and Vishnu are seen together).
This site was first documented in 2001 by a team from the University of Heidelberg.
- Edicts of Ashoka
Jaugada is the location of some of the Major Rock Edicts of Ashoka, inscribed circa 250 BCE: Major Rock Edicts 1-10 and 14 are inscribed on a central rock in the compound, as well as Separate Edicts 1&2.[1] This configuration is similar to that of the nearby Dhauli Edicts of Ashoka (250 km to the northeast).
Ashoka's Rock Edict at Jaugada
References[edit]
- ↑ The Geopolitical Orbits of Ancient India: The Geographical Frames of the ... by Dilip K Chakrabarty p.32
External links[edit]
Edicts of Ashoka
(Ruled 269–232 BCE)
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Regnal years
of Ashoka
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Type of Edict
(and location of the inscriptions)
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Geographical location
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| Year 8
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End of the Kalinga war and conversion to the "Dharma"
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| Year 10[1]
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Minor Rock Edicts
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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
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Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription
(in Greek and Aramaic, Kandahar)
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Minor Rock Edicts in Aramaic:
Laghman Inscription, Taxila inscription
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| Year 11 and later
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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)
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| Year 12 and later[1]
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Barabar Caves inscriptions
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Major Rock Edicts
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| Minor Pillar Edicts
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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)
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Schism Edict, Queen's Edict
(Sarnath Sanchi Allahabad)
Lumbini inscription, Nigali Sagar inscription
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Year 26, 27
and later[1]
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Major Pillar Edicts
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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]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Yailenko,Les maximes delphiques d'Aï Khanoum et la formation de la doctrine du dhamma d'Asoka, 1990, p. 243.
- ↑ Inscriptions of Asoka de D.C. Sircar p. 30
- ↑ Handbuch der Orientalistik de Kurt A. Behrendt p. 39
- ↑ Handbuch der Orientalistik de Kurt A. Behrendt p. 39
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