[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.s4 # 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 - **Language:** English ### IV. The Fourteen Rock Edicts ### [c22.s4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s4.1) 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. ### [c22.s4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s4.2) 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. ### [c22.s4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s4.3) 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. ### [c22.s4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s4.4) 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. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s4) · Pramāṇa