Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s1.33

c8.s1.33

in the Brāhmī characters,¹ written from left to right, to these edicts in other parts, the last word, in which states his profession, is in the Kharōshṭhī characters,² m right to left, which are found only in the extreme of the Punjab. The date of these edicts is believed essed in the figures 256 which occur at the end of dict, and which are understood as referring to the years from the death of Buddha, though they have nterpreted in many various and quite irreconcilable e edicts themselves would thus belong to the year This was the last year of Aśōka’s life, and thirty-eight his coronation-anointing. Dr. Fleet professes⁴ to have discovered that “particular interest attaches to the Mysore versions, because the Brahmagiri text discloses the fact that it was framed on the anniversary of Aśōka’s abdication, and when he was living in religious retirement on the hill Suvarnagiri, still known as Songir, which was one of the hills surrounding the ancient city of Girivraja in Magadha.” Whether all this be so or not is by no means determined.⁵