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These were probably made at the beginning of the reign of Ashoka (reigned 262-233&nbsp;BCE), from 12th year of his reign, that is, from 250&nbsp;BCE.<ref name="persee.fr">{{cite journal |last1=Yailenko |first1=Valeri P. |title=Les maximes delphiques d'Aï Khanoum et la formation de la doctrine du dhamma d'Asoka |journal=Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne |volume=16 |date=1990 |pages=239–256 |language=fr-FR|doi=10.3406/dha.1990.1467 |url=http://www.persee.fr/doc/dha_0755-7256_1990_num_16_1_1467 }}</ref>
These were probably made at the beginning of the reign of Ashoka (reigned 262-233&nbsp;BCE), from 12th year of his reign, that is, from 250&nbsp;BCE.<ref name="persee.fr">{{cite journal |last1=Yailenko |first1=Valeri P. |title=Les maximes delphiques d'Aï Khanoum et la formation de la doctrine du dhamma d'Asoka |journal=Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne |volume=16 |date=1990 |pages=239–256 |language=fr-FR|doi=10.3406/dha.1990.1467 |url=http://www.persee.fr/doc/dha_0755-7256_1990_num_16_1_1467 }}</ref>
==History==
[[Ashoka]] was the third monarch of the [[Maurya Empire]] in [[India]], reigning from around 269&nbsp;BCE.<ref name="colostate">{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/ashoka.html|title=The Edicts of King Ashoka|accessdate=15 March 2007|website=Ven. S. Dhammika|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314160034/http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/ashoka.html|archivedate=14 March 2007}}</ref> Ashoka famously converted to Buddhism and renounced violence soon after being victorious in a gruesome [[Kalinga War]], yet filled with deep remorse for the bloodshed of the war. Although he was a major historical figure, little definitive information was known as there were few records of his reign until the 19th century when a large number of his edicts, inscribed on rocks and pillars, were found in [[India]], [[Nepal]], [[Pakistan]] and [[Afghanistan]]. These many edicts were concerned with practical instructions in running a kingdom such as the design of irrigation systems and descriptions of Ashoka's beliefs in peaceful moral behavior. They contain little personal detail about his life.<ref name="colostate"/>
==List of the Minor Pillar Edicts ==
Asoka’s Minor Pillar Edicts are exclusively inscribed on several of the [[Pillars of Ashoka]], at [[Sarnath]], [[Sanchi]], [[Allahabad]] (a pillar initially located in [[Kosambi]]), [[Rummindei]] and [[Nigali Sagar]]. They are all in the [[Prakrit]] language and the [[Brahmi script]].
These pillar edicts are:<ref name=RT/>
;The Schism Edicts
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Asoka’s injunction against shism in the [[Samgha]]. Found on the [[Sarnath]], [[Sanchi]] and [[Allahabad]] pillars.
These are among the earliest inscriptions of Ashoka, at a time when inscription techniques in India where not yet mature.<ref name=JI1983/> In contrast, the lion capitals crowning these edicts (Sarnath and Sanchi) are the most refined of those produced during the time of Ashoka.<ref name=JI1983>{{cite journal |last1=Irwin |first1=John |title=The True Chronology of Aśokan Pillars |journal=Artibus Asiae |volume=44 |issue=4 |date=1983 |pages=247–265 |jstor=3249612 |doi=10.2307/3249612 }}</ref>
All the Schism edits are rather fragmentary, but the similarity of their messages permit a clear reconstruction:
{{blockquote|''"The [[Devanampriya|Beloved of the Gods]] orders the officers of [[Kosambi|Kauśāmbī]]/ [[Pataliputra|Pāṭa(liputra)]] thus:''
''No one is to cause dissention in the [[Sangha|Order]]. The Order of [[Buddhist monk|monks]] and [[Buddhist nun|nuns]] has been united, and this unity should last for as long as my sons and great grandsons, and the moon and the sun. Whoever creates a schism in the Order, whether monk or nun, is to be dressed in white garments, and to be put in a place not inhabited by monks or nuns. For it is my wish that the Order should remain united and endure for long. This is to be made known to the Order of monks and the Order of nuns."''<ref name="thapar"/>}}
<gallery>
File:Allahabad Kausambi Edict.jpg|Kosambi-Allahabad Schism Edict.
File:Sanchi_pillar_Ashokan_inscription.jpg|Sanchi Schism Edict.
File:Sarnath_pillar_inscription.jpg|Sarnath Schism Edit.
</gallery>
;The Queen's Edict
[[File:Allahabad Kosambi pillar Queen Edict.jpg|thumb|right|Allahabad, Kosambi pillar, Queen's Edict]]
Ashoka announces that  his second queen should be credited for her gifts. Found on the [[Allahabad pillar]].
{{blockquote|''"On the order of the Beloved of the Gods, the officers everywhere are to be instructed that whatever may be the gift of the second queen, whether a mango-grove, a monastery, an institution for dispensing charity or any other donation, it is to be counted to the credit of that queen … the second queen, the mother of [[Tivala|Tīvala]], [[Karuvaki|Kāruvākī]]."''<ref name="thapar">{{cite book|last1=Thapar|first1=Romila|authorlink1=Romila Thapar|title=Aśoka and the Decline of the Mauryas|date=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New Delhi|isbn=9780198077244|pages=388–390|edition=3rd|chapter-url=http://projects.mcah.columbia.edu/indianart/pdf/asoka_thapar.pdf|accessdate=8 February 2016|chapter=Appendix V: A Translation of the Edicts of Aśoka}}{{free access}}</ref>
}}
{{Clear}}
===Commemorative inscriptions===
Although generally catalogued among the "Minor Pillar Edicts", the two inscriptions found in Lumbini and at Nigali Sagar are in the past tense and in the ordinary third person (not the royal third person), suggesting that are not pronouncements of Ashoka himself, but rather later commemorations of his visits in the area.<ref name="CIB226">{{cite book |last1=Beckwith |first1=Christopher I. |title=Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia |date=2017 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-17632-1 |pages=246 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=53GYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA246 |language=en}}</ref> Being commemorative, these two inscriptions may have been written significantly later than the other Ashokan inscriptions.<ref name="CIB226"/>
;The Lumbini pillar inscription
{{main|Lumbini pillar inscription}}
Records the visit of Ashoka to [[Lumbini]], location of the birth of the [[Buddha]], in today's [[Nepal]].
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! scope="col" align=left| Translation<br><small>(English)</small>!!Transliteration<br><small>(original [[Brahmi script]])</small>!!Inscription<br><small>([[Prakrit]] in the [[Brahmi script]])</small>
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{{blockquote|''When King Beloved of the Gods Priyadarsin had been anointed twenty years, he came himself and worshipped (this spot) because the [[Buddha Shakyamuni]] was born here. (He) both caused to be made a stone bearing a horse (?) and caused a stone pillar to be set up, (in order to show) that the Blessed One was born here. (He) made the village of [[Lumbini|Lummini]] free of taxes, and paying (only) an eighth share (of the produce).''|The [[Rummindei]] Edict, one of the Minor Pillar Edicts of Ashoka.<ref>Hultzsch, E. (1925). [https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOfAsoka.NewEditionByE.Hultzsch/HultzschCorpusAsokaSearchable#page/n337/mode/2up Inscriptions of Asoka]. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 164-165</ref>}}
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{{blockquote|
<poem>
<big>{{Script|Brah|[[Devanampriya|𑀤𑁂𑀯𑀸𑀦𑀁𑀧𑀺𑀬𑁂]]𑀦 [[Priyadasi|𑀧𑀺𑀬𑀤𑀲𑀺]]𑀦 [[Raja|𑀮𑀸𑀚𑀺]]𑀦𑀯𑀻𑀲𑀢𑀺𑀯𑀲𑀸𑀪𑀺𑀲𑀺𑀢𑁂𑀦}}</big>
<small>Devānaṃpiyena Piyadasina lājina vīsati-vasābhisitena</small>
<big>{{Script|Brah|𑀅𑀢𑀦𑀆𑀕𑀸𑀘 𑀫𑀳𑀻𑀬𑀺𑀢𑁂 𑀳𑀺𑀤[[Buddha|𑀩𑀼𑀥𑁂]]𑀚𑀸𑀢 [[Sakyamuni|𑀲𑀓𑁆𑀬𑀫𑀼𑀦𑀺]]𑀢𑀺}}</big>
<small>atana āgāca mahīyite hida Budhe jāte Sakyamuni ti</small>
<big>{{Script|Brah|𑀲𑀺𑀮𑀸𑀯𑀺𑀕𑀥𑀪𑀺𑀘𑀸𑀓𑀸𑀳𑀸𑀧𑀺𑀢 𑀲𑀺𑀮𑀸𑀣𑀪𑁂𑀘 𑀉𑀲𑀧𑀸𑀧𑀺𑀢𑁂}}</big>
<small>silā vigaḍabhī cā kālāpita silā-thabhe ca usapāpite</small>
<big>{{Script|Brah|𑀳𑀺𑀤[[Bhagavat|𑀪𑀕𑀯𑀁]]𑀚𑀸𑀢𑀢𑀺 𑀮𑀼𑀁𑀫𑀺𑀦𑀺𑀕𑀸𑀫𑁂 𑀉𑀩𑀮𑀺𑀓𑁂𑀓𑀝𑁂}}</big>
<small>hida Bhagavaṃ jāte ti Luṃmini-gāme ubalike kaṭe</small>
<big>{{Script|Brah|𑀅𑀞𑀪𑀸𑀕𑀺𑀬𑁂𑀘}}</big>
<small>aṭha-bhāgiye ca</small>
</poem>
|Adapted from transliteration by [[E. Hultzsch]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hultzsch |first1=E. |title=Inscriptions of Asoka. New Edition by E. Hultzsch |date=1925 |page=164 |url=https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOfAsoka.NewEditionByE.Hultzsch/HultzschCorpusAsokaSearchable#page/n337/mode/2up |language=Sanskrit}}</ref>}}
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[[File:Lumbini pillar with inscription and its location.jpg|thumb|300px|Lumbini Rummindei pillar at time of discovery in 1896, with location of the inscription, which was hidden about 1 meter under ground level.<ref>[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/a/019pho0001007s3u00632000.html British Library Online]</ref><ref>"Dr. Fuhrer went from Nigliva to Rummindei where another Priyadasin lat has been discovered... and an inscription about 3 feet below surface, had been opened by the Nepalese" in {{cite book |last1=Calcutta |first1=Maha Bodhi Society |title=The Maha-Bodhi |date=1921 |page=226 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lvENAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref>]]<br>
|}
;The Nigali Sagar pillar inscription
{{main|Nigali Sagar}}
At [[Nigali Sagar]], Ashoka mentions his dedication for the enlargement of the Stupa dedicated to the [[Kanakamuni Buddha]].
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|+ Nigali Sagar Edict
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! scope="col" align=left| Translation<br><small>(English)</small>!!Transliteration<br><small>(original [[Brahmi script]])</small>!!Inscription<br><small>([[Prakrit]] in the [[Brahmi script]])</small>
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{{blockquote|''"Beloved of the Gods King [[Priyadarsin]] in the 14th year of his reign enlarged for the second time the stupa of the [[Kanakamuni Buddha|Buddha Kanakamuni]] and in the 20th year of his reign, having come in person, paid reverence and set up a stone pillar".''<ref name="ReferenceA">Basanta Bidari - 2004 Kapilavastu: the world of Siddhartha - Page 87</ref><ref name="archive.org">{{cite book |title=Inscriptions of Asoka. New Edition by E. Hultzsch |date=1925 |page=165 |url=https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOfAsoka.NewEditionByE.Hultzsch/HultzschCorpusAsokaSearchable#page/n339 |language=Sanskrit}}</ref>}}
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{{blockquote|
<poem>
<big>{{Script|Brah|𑀤𑁂𑀯𑀸𑀦𑀁𑀧𑀺𑀬𑁂𑀦 𑀧𑀺𑀬𑀤𑀲𑀺𑀦 𑀮𑀸𑀚𑀺𑀦 𑀘𑁄𑀤𑀲𑀯𑀲𑀸 𑀪𑀺𑀲𑀺𑀢𑁂𑀦}}</big>
<small>''Devānampiyena piyadasina lajina codasavasā bhisitena''</small>
<big>{{Script|Brah|𑀩𑀼𑀥𑀲 𑀓𑁄𑀦𑀸𑀓𑀫𑀦𑀲 𑀣𑀼𑀩𑁂𑀤𑀼𑀢𑀺𑀬𑀁 𑀯𑀠𑀺𑀢𑁂}}</big>
<small>''Budhasa Konākamanasa thube-dutyam vaḍhite''</small>
<big>{{Script|Brah|𑀯𑀺𑀲𑀢𑀺𑀯 𑀲𑀸𑀪𑀺𑀲𑀺𑀢𑁂𑀦𑀘 𑀅𑀢𑀦 𑀅𑀕𑀸𑀘 𑀫𑀳𑀻𑀬𑀺𑀢𑁂}}</big>
<small>''Visativa sābhisitena–ca atana-agāca-mahīyite''</small>
<big>{{Script|Brah|𑀲𑀺𑀮𑀣𑀩𑁂𑀘 𑀉𑀲𑀧𑀧𑀺𑀢𑁂}}</big>
<small>''silathabe-ca usa papite''</small><ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref name="archive.org"/>
</poem>
}}
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[[File:Ashoka_Inscriptions_Nigali_Sagar_pillar_inscription.jpg|thumb|300px|Rubbing of the inscription.]]<br>
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==Inscription techniques==
[[File:Allahabad Kosambi pillar Schism Edict.jpg|thumb|The Kosambi-Allahabad Schism Edict, as the Sarnath or Sanchi Schism Edicts, display low inscriptional skills. They were made by inexperienced Indian engravers at a time when stone engraving was still new in India.<ref name=JI264/>]]
The inscription technique of the early Edicts, particularly the Schism Edcits at Sarnath, Sanchi and Kosambi-Allahabad, is very poor compared for example to the later [[Major Pillar Edicts]], however the Minor Pillar Edicts are often associated with some of the artistically most sophisticated pillar capitals of Ashoka, such as the renowned [[Lion Capital of Ashoka]] which crowned the [[Sarnath]] Minor Pillar Edict, or the very similar, but less well preserved [[Sanchi]] lion [[capital (architecture)|capital]] which crowned the very clumsily inscribed Schism Edict of Sanchi.<ref name=JI/> These edicts were probably made at the beginning of the reign of Ashoka (reigned 262-233&nbsp;BCE), from the year 12 of his reign, that is, from 256&nbsp;BCE.<ref name="persee.fr"/>
According to Irwin, the Brahmi inscriptions on the Sarnath and Sanchi pillars were made by inexperienced Indian engravers at a time when stone engraving was still new in India, whereas the very refined Sarnath capital itself was made under the tutelage of craftsmen from the former [[Achaemenid Empire]], trained in Perso-Hellenistic statuary and employed by Ashoka.<ref name=JI264>{{cite journal |last1=Irwin |first1=John |title=The True Chronology of Aśokan Pillars |journal=Artibus Asiae |volume=44 |issue=4 |date=1983 |pages=250&264 |doi=10.2307/3249612 |jstor=3249612 }}</ref> This suggests that the most sophisticated capitals were actually the earliest in the sequence of [[Pillars of Ashoka|Ashokan pillars]] and that style degraded over a short period of time.<ref name="JI">The True Chronology of Aśokan Pillars, John Irwin, Artibus Asiae, Vol. 44, No. 4 (1983), pp. 264 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3249612?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents]</ref>
The Rummindei and Nigali Sagar edicts, inscribed on pillars erected by Ashoka later in his reign (19th and 20th year) display a high level of inscriptional technique with a good regularity in the lettering.<ref name=JI264/>
==Description of the Minor Pillar Edicts==
The Minor Rock Edicts of Ashoka are exclusively inscribed on some of the [[Pillars of Ashoka]], at [[Sanchi]], [[Sarnath]], [[Allahabad]], [[Rummindei]] and [[Nigali Sagar]].
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|[[:Commons:Category:Ashoka pillar, Sarnath|Sarnath]]<br><br><br>([[Lion Capital of Ashoka]]) ||Located in [[Sarnath]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]<br>Schism Edict.<ref name=DKC>The Geopolitical Orbits of Ancient India: The Geographical Frames of the ... by Dilip K Chakrabarty [https://books.google.com/books?id=EIAyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT32 p.32]</ref><br><br>Sarnath Schism Edict of Ashoka:
{{blockquote|[[File:Sarnath_pillar_inscription.jpg|thumb|100px]]''".......... [cannot] be divided. The Samgha both of [[Bhikku|monks]] and of [[Bhikkuni|nuns]] is made united as long as (my) sons and great-grandsons (shall reign, and) as long as the moon and the sun (shall shine). The monk or nun who shall break up the Samgha, must be caused to put on white robes and to reside in a non-residence. For my desire is that the Samgha may be united (and) of long duration."''
|Inscriptions of Asoka. New Edition by E. Hultzsch [https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOfAsoka.NewEditionByE.Hultzsch/HultzschCorpusAsokaSearchable#page/n333 pp.160-162]}}
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|[[:Commons:Category:Sanchi pillar of Ashoka|Sanchi]] ||Located in [[Sanchi]], [[Madhya Pradesh]]<br>Schism Edict.<ref name=DKC/><br><br>Sanchi Schism Edict of Ashoka:
{{blockquote|[[File:Sanchi pillar Ashokan inscription.jpg|right|100px]]''"... path is prescribed both for the monks and for the nuns. As long as (my) sons and great-grandsons (shall reign ; and) as long as the Moon and the Sun (shall endure), the monk or nun who shall cause divisions in the [[Sangha]], shall be compelled to put on white robes and to reside apart. For what is my desire ? That the Sangha may be united and may long endure."''|Edict of [[Ashoka]] on the Sanchi pillar.<ref>John Marshall, "A Guide to Sanchi" [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.459148 p.93] Public Domain text</ref>}}
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|[[:Commons:Category:Ashoka pillar, Allahabad|Allahabad (Kosambi)]] ||{{main|Allahabad pillar}}Located in [[Allahabad]] (originally in [[Kosambi]], [[Bihar]]<br>Schism Edict, Queen's Edict. Several [[Major Pillar Edicts]] (1-6) are also inscribed.<ref name=DKC/><br><br>Allahabad Schism Edict of Ashoka:
{{blockquote|[[File:Allahabad Kosambi pillar Schism Edict.jpg|100px|right]]''Beloved of the Gods commands (thus).''<br>
''The [[Mahamatra]]s of Kosambi................''<br>
''.....................is made united.''<br>
''....................should not be received into the Samgha.''<br>
''And also that monk or nun (who) shall break up the Samgha, should be caused to put on white robes and to reside in a non-residence.''<ref>{{cite book |title=Inscriptions of Asoka. New Edition by E. Hultzsch |date=1925 |page=160 |url=https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOfAsoka.NewEditionByE.Hultzsch/HultzschCorpusAsokaSearchable#page/n331 |language=Sanskrit}}</ref>}}
Allahabad Queen's Edict:
{{blockquote|[[File:Allahabad Kosambi pillar Queen Edict.jpg|100px|right]]''"On the order of the Beloved of the Gods, the officers everywhere are to be instructed that whatever may be the gift of the second queen, whether a mango-grove, a monastery, an institution for dispensing charity or any other donation, it is to be counted to the credit of that queen … the second queen, the mother of Tīvala, Kāruvākī."''<ref name="thapar"/>}}
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|[[:Commons:Category:Ashoka pillar (Lumbini)|Rummindei]]<br>/Paderia ||Located in [[Lumbini]], [[Nepal]]<br>Rummindei Edict.<ref name=DKC/><br><br>Rummindei Edict of Ashoka:
{{blockquote|''When King Beloved of the Gods [[Priyadarsin]] had been anointed twenty years, he came himself and worshipped (this spot) because the [[Buddha Shakyamuni]] was born here. (He) both caused to be made a stone bearing a horse (?)and caused a stone pillar to be set up, (in order to show) that the Blessed One was born here. (He) made the village of Lummini free of taxes, and paying (only) an eighth share (of the produce).''|Ashoka inscription on the Lumbini pillar.<ref>Hultzsch, E. /1925). [https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOfAsoka.NewEditionByE.Hultzsch/HultzschCorpusAsokaSearchable#page/n337/mode/2up Inscriptions of Asoka]. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 164-165</ref><br>[[File:Buddha Sakyamuni on the Rummindei pillar of Ashoka.jpg|thumb|center|The words "[[Buddha|Bu-dhe]]" ([[Buddha]]) and "[[Sakyamuni|Sa-kya-mu-nī]] " ("Sage of the [[Shakyas]]") in [[Brahmi script]], on [[Ashoka]]'s [[Rummindei]] [[Minor Pillar Edict]] (circa 250 BCE).]]}}
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|[[:Commons:Category:Ashoka Pillar, Nigali Sagar|Nigali Sagar]]||Located in [[Nigali Sagar]], [[Nepal]]<br>Nigali Sagar Edict.<ref name=DKC/><br><br>Nigali Sagar Edict of Ashoka:
{{blockquote|"Devanam piyena piyadasin lajina- chodasavasa bhisitena Budhasa Konakamanasa thube-dutyam vadhite Visativa sabhisitena –cha atana-agacha-mahiyite silathabe-cha usa papite"<br>
''“Beloved of the Gods [[Priyadarsin]] in the 14th year of his reign enlarged for the second time the stupa of the [[Kanakamuni Buddha|Buddha Kanakamuni]] and in the 20th year of his reign, having come in person, paid reverence and set up a stone pillar”''.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
[[File:Nigali Sagar Ashokan inscription Budhasa Konaakamanasa with rubbing.jpg|thumb|center|"''Budha-sa Konākamana-sa''" ("Of the [[Kanakamuni Buddha]]") inscription in the [[Brahmi Script]], at [[Nigali Sagar]], 250 BCE]]
[[File:Nigali Sagar word Stupa.jpg|right|50px]]
This inscription has the first known instance of the use of the word "[[Stupa]]" (here spelled in the [[Brahmi script]] as ''"Thube"'').<ref>Amaravati: The Art of an early Buddhist Monument in context. [http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/207_Amaravati.pdf p.23]</ref>
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== See also ==
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; Related topics
* [[Ancient iron production]]
* [[Dhar iron pillar]]
* [[History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent]]
* [[Iron pillar of Delhi]]
* [[List of Edicts of Ashoka]]
* [[Pillars of Ashoka]]
* [[Stambha]]
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; Other similar topics
* [[Early Indian epigraphy]]
* [[Hindu temple architecture]]
* [[History of India]]
* [[Indian copper plate inscriptions]]
* [[Indian rock-cut architecture]]
* [[List of rock-cut temples in India]]
* [[Outline of ancient India]]
* [[South Indian Inscriptions]]
* [[Tagundaing]]
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==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060516000049/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/position/salomon.html  On The Origin Of The Early Indian Scripts]
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