[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.s6 # 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 - **Language:** English ### VI. The Seven Pillar Edicts ### [c22.s6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s6.1) 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. ### [c22.s6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s6.2) 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. ### [c22.s6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s6.3) Monmohan Chakravarti.—‘Animals in the Inscriptions of Piyadasi’ (\*Memoirs A. S. B.\*, Calc., 1906), for Ed. v. ### [c22.s6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s6.4) 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. ### [c22.s6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s6.5) 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. ### [c22.s6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s6.6) The Pillar Edicts present comparatively few difficulties. ## Linked texts (3) - [Epigraphia Indica](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.corpora.ei) - [Indian Antiquary](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.corpora.ia) - [Pillar Edicts of Aśoka (Edicts I–IV) (ed. Bühler 1894)](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.asoka.pe.pe7*buhler1894) — Prakrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c22.s6) · Pramāṇa