Bhubaneswar, which takes its name from the word "Tribhubaneswar," meaning "Lord of the Three Worlds" (a reference to Lord Shiva who is the presiding deity here) is often called the ‘Temple City Of ...

A delegation of Sri Lankan Buddhist Monks visited Ashoka's Rock Edict at Shahbazgarhi in Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday. Ashoka was a well-known Mauryan Emperor of South Asia, who ...

“Ashokan Edict Sites Along the Mauryan Routes” are considered India's oldest written documents, with rock and pillar inscriptions that describe Emperor Ashoka's teachings on Buddhism ...

Major Rock Edict VII: Tolerance of religions among all sects and welfare measures for the public in his as well as his neighboring kingdoms. Major Rock Edict VIII: First visit of Ashoka to Bodh ...

Being face to face with the rock edicts of Ashoka at the Buddhist stupa at Dhauli is akin to landing in a time machine at a momentous turn of Asian history. With pit-stops for coconut water, the ...

Twin Ashoka Pillars at Rampurva. Credit: Praanshu / Wikimedia Commons Thematically, the edicts of the rocks and minor pillars, the earliest ones, are fundamentally religious, with continuous ...

This is explicated in the 13th major rock edict. This inscription gives Ashoka’s account of the war against Kalinga, eight years after his abhisheka, and his consequent feeling of profound remorse.

Bookshelf ‘Ashoka’ Review: Conquer First, Enlighten Later The ruler of one of ancient India’s most extensive empires turned from military campaigns to spreading the teachings of the Buddha.

Ashoka in Rock Edict XIII dealing with the Kalinga war lists among the enormous number of war casualties the 150,000 people who were ‘carried away’. The word used is ‘apavaha’ (Sanskrit: apavāha), ...

The Government is actively exploring the idea of creating an integrated circuit dedicated to the Ashokan rock and pillar edicts that dot the landscape of India. Drawing inspiration from the ...

He also discovered and established that the Orissa rock edict and the Girnar rock edict were basically identical and helped establish Ashoka as a genuine historical figure. There are 14 major Ashokan ...

NEW DELHI: Ashok Rock Edict site, located near Kailash Hills in south Delhi, is set to get a new lease of life with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) undertaking a major exercise to spruce ...