The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c22.s2: II. Minor Rock Edicts
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c22.s2
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II. Minor Rock Edicts
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These documents, studied in connexion with the Minor Pillar Edicts, have attracted special attention. The last word has not been said yet.
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Bühler, G.—The three Siddāpura (Mysore) texts, ed. and transl. with facs., in *Ep. Ind.*, iii, 135–42; the three northern texts, Sahasrām, Bairāt, and Rūpnāth, ed. and transl. with facs. of Sahasrām and Rūpnāth in *Ind. Ant.*, vi (1877), pp. 149–60; and revised, ibid., vol. xxii (1893), pp. 299–306. See also ibid., vol. xxvi (1897), p. 334.
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Senart and Grierson.—The three northern texts, in *Ind. Ant.*, vol. xx (1891), p. 154.
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Rice, Lewis.—Facs. of Siddāpura texts, all three, in *Ep. Carn.*, vol. xi (Bangalore, 1909); and of Brahmagiri text in *Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions* (London, 1909).
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Fleet, J. F.—A series of papers in *J. R. A. S.*, for 1903, 1904, 1908, 1909, 1910, and 1911.
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Thomas, F. W.—*Ind. Ant.*, 1908, p. 21; ‘Les Vivāsāh d’Asoka’, *J. Asiatique*, Mai–Juin 1910, important; *J. R. A. S.*, 1913, p. 477.
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Hultzsch, Prof.—*J. R. A. S.*, 1910, pp. 142, 1308; 1911, p. 1114; 1913, p. 1053 (with Minor Pillar Edicts).
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Lévi, Prof. Sylvain.—‘Vyuthena 256’ in *J. Asiatique*, Jan.–Fév. 1911.
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Bhandarkar, D. R.—‘Epigraphic Notes and Questions’, *Ind. Ant.*, 1912, pp. 170–3.
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Yazdani, G.—The Maski text. Ed. with plates in *Hyderabad Archaeol. Series*, No. i, Calcutta, 1915; commented on by Rice, *J. R. A. S.*, 1916, p. 838.