Bairat

Discovery of Bairat Harry Falk- Asokan Sites and Artefacts, 62-63 Discovery: Carlleyle on his tour in 1871-72; he mistook the two parts for “two important inscriptions in ancient characters of the time of Asoka on a rock there, which had never been discov ered before” (Carlleyle 1878: 91). E. HULTZSCH - Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, XXIV-XXV A much damaged version of the Rupnath-Sahasram edict was discovered in 1871-2 by Mr. Carlleyle about a mile to the north-east of Bairat, the head-quarters of a tahsil in the Jaipur State, Rajputana, about forty-two miles north-by-north-east of Jaipur City. ‘This edict is engraved on a block lying separately, but immediately below the hill locally known as Bhīm-ki-ḍuṅgrī….. It is inscribed on the eastern face and near the lower end of the rock.’ The inscribed block ‘is 17 feet in height by 24 feet in length from east to west, and 15 feet in thickness from north to south.’ The inscription was edited by Bühler and Senart along with the Rupnath and Sahasram ones (Nos. I and II, above). No facsimile of it has yet been published except Cunningham’s eye-copy in his Inscriptions of Asoka, plate 14, No. x. Calcutta-Bairat Edict Harry Falk- Asokan Sit…