The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c22.s6: VI. The Seven Pillar Edicts
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c22.s6
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VI. The Seven Pillar Edicts
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The standard ed. is BÜHLER’S, with transl. and facs. of somè texts, in *Ep. Ind.*, ii (1894), pp. 245–74. Revised ed. and transl.
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by Senart and Grierson in *Ind. Ant.*, xvii (1888), pp. 303–7; xviii (1889), pp. i, 73, 105, 300. Facs. of Delhi–Topra and Allāhābād texts, by Bühler and Fleet, in *Ind. Ant.*, xiii (1884), p. 306.
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Monmohan Chakravarti.—‘Animals in the Inscriptions of Piyadasi’ (*Memoirs A. S. B.*, Calc., 1906), for Ed. v.
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T. Michelson in ‘Notes on the Pillar Edicts of Asoka’ (*Indo-Germ. Forschungen* (Sonderabzug, Trübner, Strassburg, 1908)) gives valuable textual criticism with some interpretations. See ‘Asokan Notes’ in *J. A. O. S.*, vol. xxxvi (1916), pp. 205–12.
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For description of the Rāmpurwā pillars, see *J. R. A. S.*, 1908, p. 1085. Pillar Edict IV is discussed by Thomas, *J. R. A. S.*, 1916, pp. 120–3; for Pillar Edict VII, see D. R. Bhandarkar in *Ind. Ant.*, vol. xliii (1884), p. 310; Thomas, *J. R. A. S.*, 1915, p. 97, and ibid., 1916, p. 122.
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The Pillar Edicts present comparatively few difficulties.