The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.s2.145

v2.c16.s2.145

"Stone has been extensively quarried here for the different temples in the vicinity, and (I should venture to add) for Kanarak."⁶⁰ The south-eastern of the group bears the name of Aśvathāmā. It stands close by the famous tank called Kośala-gaṅgā, and is remarkable for bearing on it a series of edicts of the Great Emperor Aśoka, the ardent patron of Buddhism. The particular point of the hill which bears the edicts is situated "on the northern face of the southernmost rock near its summit; the rock has been hewn and polished for a space of fifteen feet long by ten in height, and the inscription deeply cut thereon being divided into four tablets, the first of which appears to have been executed at a different period from the rest; the letters are much larger and not so well cut. The fourth tablet is encircled by a deep line, and is cut with more care than either of the others.