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The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c22.s4: IV. The Fourteen Rock Edicts

The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c22.s4

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IV. The Fourteen Rock Edicts

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The standard edition is that by BÜHLER in *Ep. Ind.*, ii, pp. 447–72, with facs. of Girnār and Kālsī texts; transcripts of Girnār, Kālsī, Shāhbāzgaṛhi and Mānsahra texts, and version of Shāhbāzgaṛhi. Facs. of Edict XII, Shāhb., by same, in *Ep. Ind.*, i, 16; ed. and transl., by same, of Dhauli and Jaugaḍa texts in BURGESS, *Amarāvatī* (*A. S. S. I.*, 1887), pp. 114–25. Another facs. of Girnār text, with obsolete transl., in BURGESS, *Kāthiāwār and Kachh, A. S. W. I.*, pp. 93–127.

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Edicts I, II, discussed in *J. Bo. Br. R. A. S.*, vol. xx (1902), and in *Ind. Ant.*, xlii (1913), pp. 253–8; vol. xlvii (1918), p. 48 and pp. 221–3; and *J. R. A. S.*, 1914, p. 393. For Edict III, see Fleet, *J. R. A. S.*, 1908, pp. 811–22; and *J. B. O. Res. Soc.*, iv, 37. Edict IV, discussed by HULTZSCH, *J. R. A. S.*, 1911, p. 785, and D. R. BHANDARKAR, *Ind. Ant.*, 1913, p. 25. See also *Ind. Ant.*, xliv (1915), p. 208. For Edict V, see *J. B. O. Res. Soc.*, iv, 144–6. For Edict VI, *Ind. Ant.*, xlvii (1918), p. 51. For Edict VIII, *Ind. Ant.*, vol. xlii (1913), p. 159; RHYS DAVIDS, *Dialogues*, 1st series, p. 190. For Edict IX, *J. R. A. S.*, 1913, p. 654. Edict XIII, *J. R. A. S.*, 1913, p. 655.

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Many points connected with the series are examined by V. A. SMITH in ‘Asoka Notes’ (see *I. General*, above); and by R. O. FRANKE, ‘Zu Açoka’s Felsen-Edicten’, in *Nachr. d. königl. Gesellsch. d. Wissenschaften zu Göttingen*, 1895.

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The papers by MICHELSON, chiefly dealing with technicalities of etymology and phonetics, in *J. Amer. Or. Soc.*, 1911; *American J. Philology*, 1909, 1910; and *Indo-Germ. Forschungen*, 1910, 1911, are concerned to a considerable extent with the Fourteen Rock Edicts.