[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c22.s2 # 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 - **Language:** English ### II. Minor Rock Edicts ### [c22.s2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s2.1) These documents, studied in connexion with the Minor Pillar Edicts, have attracted special attention. The last word has not been said yet. ### [c22.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s2.2) 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. ### [c22.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s2.3) Senart and Grierson.—The three northern texts, in \*Ind. Ant.\*, vol. xx (1891), p. 154. ### [c22.s2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s2.4) 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). ### [c22.s2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s2.5) Fleet, J. F.—A series of papers in \*J. R. A. S.\*, for 1903, 1904, 1908, 1909, 1910, and 1911. ### [c22.s2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s2.6) 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. ### [c22.s2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s2.7) Hultzsch, Prof.—\*J. R. A. S.\*, 1910, pp. 142, 1308; 1911, p. 1114; 1913, p. 1053 (with Minor Pillar Edicts). ### [c22.s2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s2.8) Lévi, Prof. Sylvain.—‘Vyuthena 256’ in \*J. Asiatique\*, Jan.–Fév. 1911. ### [c22.s2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s2.9) Bhandarkar, D. R.—‘Epigraphic Notes and Questions’, \*Ind. Ant.\*, 1912, pp. 170–3. ### [c22.s2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s2.10) 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. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s2) · Pramāṇa