The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c22.s7: VII. Minor Pillar Edicts
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c22.s7
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VII. Minor Pillar Edicts
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(1) Sārnāth.—Vogel, discussion with facs. in *Ep. Ind.*, viii (1905–6), p. 168; Senart, *Comptes rendus de l’Acad. des Inscriptions*, 1907, p. 25; Venis. *J. & Proc. A. S. B.*, vol. iii, N.S. (1907); Norman, ibid., vol. iv (1908); Boyer, *J. Asiatique*, t. x (1907), p. 119. See also Thomas, *J. R. A. S.*, 1915, p. 112.
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(2) Kauśāmbī.—Senart transcribed it in *Ind. Ant.*, xviii (1889), p. 309; facs. and transcript by Bühler, ibid., xix (1890), p. 126.
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(3) Sāñchī.—Bühler ed. and transl. in *Ep. Ind.*, ii, 87, 367, 369; Hultzsch, *J. R. A. S.*, 1911, p. 167.
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(4) Queen’s Edict.—Bühler ed. and transl. in *Ep. Ind.*, ii, 87, 367; and further revision in *Ind. Ant.*, xix (1890), p. 125. Emendation by Hultzsch, *J. R. A. S.*, 1911, p. 1113. Senart, revised, ed., and transl. in *Ind. Ant.*, xviii (1889), p. 308.
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The interpretation is connected with that of the Minor Rock Edicts, which see. For description of the pillar, see *Annual Rep. Arch. S.*, 1904–5, pp. 36, 68.