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Inscriptions at Girnar

14 inscriptions at this site (including related caves / faces).

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Girnar

14 inscriptions

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Major Rock Edict I (Girnar)
Major Rock Edict I (Girnar Version)
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Major Rock Edict II (Girnar)
(A) Everywhere in the dominions of king Devānaṁpriya Priyadarśin, and likewise among (his) borderers, such as the Coḍas, the Pāṇḍyas, the Satiyaputa, the Ketal…
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Major Rock Edict III (Girnar)
(A) King Devānaṁpriya Priyadarśin speaks thus. (B) (When I had been) anointed twelve years, the following was ordered by me. (C) Everywhere in my dominions the…
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Major Rock Edict IV (Girnar)
(A) In times past, for many hundreds of years, there had ever been promoted the killing of animals and the hurting of living beings, discourtesy to relatives, …
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Major Rock Edict IX (Girnar)
(A) King Devānaṁpriya Priyadarśin speaks thus. (B) Men are practising various ceremonies during illness, or at the marriage of a son or a daughter, or at the b…
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Major Rock Edict V (Girnar)
(A) King Devānaṁpriya Priyadarśin speaks thus. (B) It is difficult to perform virtuous deeds. (C) He who starts performing virtuous deeds accomplishes somethin…
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Major Rock Edict VI (Girnar)
(A) King Devānāṁpriya Priyadarśin speaks thus. (B) In times past neither the disposal of affairs nor the submission of reports at any time did exist before. (C…
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Major Rock Edict VII (Girnar)
(A) King Devānaṁpriya Priyadarśin desires (that) all sects may reside everywhere. (B) (For) all these desire both self-control and purity of mind. (C) But men …
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Major Rock Edict VIII (Girnar)
(A) In times past kings used to set out on pleasure-tours. (B) On these (tours) hunting and other such pleasures were (enjoyed) (C) But when king Devānaṁpriya …
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Major Rock Edict X (Girnar)
(A) King Devānaṁpriya Priyadarśin does not think that either glory or fame conveys much advantage, except (on account of his aim that) in the present time, and…
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Major Rock Edict XI (Girnar)
(A) King Devānampriya Priyadarśīn speaks thus. (B) There is no such gift as the gift of morality, or acquaintance through morality, or the distribution of mora…
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Major Rock Edict XII (Girnar)
(A) King Devānaṁpriya Priyadarśin is honouring all sects: both ascetics and householders; both with gifts and with honours of various kinds he is honouring the…
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Major Rock Edict XIII (Girnar)
(A) . . . . . . . . . the Kaliṅgas . . . . . . . . . (B) . . . . . . . . . one hundred thousand in number were those who were slain there, (and) many times as …
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Major Rock Edict XIV (Girnar)
(A) These rescripts on morality have been caused to be written by king Devānaṁpriya Priyadarśin either in an abridged (form), or of middle (size), or at full l…
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