The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c29.19

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We now return to Açoka’s own rescripts, the concluding group of seven edicts, which are found inscribed upon pillars, the whole number at Delhi and six of them also at other spots in the central regions of Hindustān. They belong to the twenty-seventh and following year from the coronation. In tenor they open out no new courses of action, but repeat and continue the earlier principles. One of them, however, which will be textually introduced below (pp. 510–1), has an especial interest, as a recapitulation of the aims and measures of the reign.