Major Rock Edict
(A) These rescripts on morality [have been caused] to be written by king Devānaṁpriya Priyadarśin . . . . . . . . . or of middle (size), or at full length. (B) For the whole was not suitable everywhere. (C) For (my) dominions are wide, and much has been written, [and I] shall cau…
Discovery of Dhauli 1. Asokan Sites and Artefacts - Harry Falk Page-113-114 Discovery: A first reading of some initial words was published by Prinsep 1837a: 471. Kittoe gave his report in 1838a: 435: “I had the good fortune to discover by the merest accident: a byragí priest, native of Mirzapoor near Benares having described it to me; such, however, is the aversion the Ooriyahs have, to our going near their places of worship, that I was actually decoyed away from the spot, when within a few yards of it, being assured that there was no such place,and had returned for a mile or more, when I met with a man who led me back to the spot by torch-light. I set fire to the jangal and perceived the inscription which was completely hidden by it.” Later, Kittoe went to the rock “before day-break and had to wait till it was light; for the two bear cubs which escaped me there last year,when I killed the old bear, were now full grown and disputed the ground” (1838b: 684). Today, all memory of bears once living in this area is gone. Kittoe (1838a: 451) reported an old name asvastama for the rocks with the inscriptions, but today nothing similar to asvastama has any meaning to the local population…
1 (A) iyaṁ dhaṁma-lipī De[v]ānaṁpiyena Piyada[sin]ā lāj[inā likhā] athi ma[jhimena] . . . . [h]i save sav[a]ta ghaṭite 2 (C) mahaṁte hi vijaye bahu[k]e ca likhite likhiyis . . . . . (D) [a]thi . . . . . . [vu]te ta[sa] . . . . [y]āy[e] 3 [k]iṁti ca j[a]ne tathā paṭipajeyā ti (E) e pi cu heta asamati likhit[e s] saṁ . [lochay]itu . . . . . . . k[a]l[ā] . . . . [t]i
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