Bahapur

Discovery of Bahapur D. C. Sircar, Asokan Studies, 82–83 Early in 1966, the discovery of a new inscription of the Maurya emperor Aśoka (c. 272-232 B.C.) near Delhi was reported in the newspapers. It was actually found within the village of Bahapur to the south-east of Delhi. The inscription is described as engraved on a flat but tilted rock surface of the quartzitic outcrop of the Aravalli. The discovery resulted from clues supplied by Sardar Jang Bahadur Singh who is a building contractor of Delhi. The inscription was identified as an Aśokan epigraph by M. С. Joshi and B. M. Pande of the Archaeological Survey. G. S. Gai, Chief Epigraphist, copied the record in September, 1966, and was good enough to send me two impressions for editing it in the Epigraphia Indica. Harry Falk, Asokan Sites and Artefacts, 67–69 Discovery: Early in 1966 one Shri Jang Bahadur Singh "came upon the inscribed rock when it was about to be blasted away for the development of a residential colony" (Joshi & Pande 1967: 96).