Discovery of Jatinga-Rameshwar
Jatinga-Rameshwar (MREs I and II), Chitaldrug district (5 km from Brahmagiri), Karnataka. On the basis of textual similarity, it along with Minor Rock Edicts at Brahmagiri and Siddapur forms one group. It was found in 1892. (Thaplyal, Kumar. Kiran, Asoka the King and the Man. New Delhi. Aryan Books International. p. 278)
Jaṭiṅga Rameśvara
Citaldrug District, Karnataka
14°51' N.
76°47' E.
GSI map 57 B/13
U502: ND 43-8
Discovery:
1892 by Lewis Rice (Rice 1903: 1, cf. Burgess 1893a). (Falk, Harry. (2006) Aśokan Sites and Artifacts: A Source Book of Bibliography. Mainz. Verlag Philipp von Zabern GmbH. pp. 78).
Inscription: Minor Rock Edict I and II
Script: Brahmi and Kharoshti
Language: Prakrit
The site was discovered in 1892 by Lewis Rice. Here we find twin hills known by the name Jatinga-Rameswara after the of the Siva temple (Ramesvara) on the top of a hill and the association of the myth of the mythical bird Jatayu. Here on the top of the hill is a rock surface on which the inscription is not engraved vertically rather the horizontal surface of the rock has been used to write the inscription. (Basu Majumdar, S. (2016). The Mauryas in Karnataka. Kolkata. Maha Bodhi Book Agency. P. 45.)
JAṬIṄGA-RĀMESHWAR (Minor Rock Edict). This site lies about three miles from Brahmagiri and the inscription belongs to the Mysore group. It might originally have been a place of religious interest since the inscription is within the precincts of the present Jaṭiṅga-Rāmeshwar temple. (Thapar, R. (1973). Asoka and the decline of the Mauryas (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 231.)