An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s18.t3.30

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*4.18.8 N.-e. Deccan.* Nothing prior to the two sets of the rock-edicts of Aśoka can be said to belong to the early historical period of Orissa. Aśoka who conquered Kaliṅga in the eighth year of his reign (*c.* 265 B.C.) has left his records at two places in Orissa—Dhauli and JAUGADA. These sets of edicts are significant in that they omit all reference to his conquest of Kaliṅga which his edicts engraved elsewhere mention, evidently to avoid any offence to the people of that country, of whom a hundred thousand had been killed in the war. In one of them he proclaims: ‘All men are my children.’ These edicts are respectively addressed to his officers (*mahāmātras*) posted at Tosalī and Samāpā. The Samāpā edict is engraved on a boulder in the fortified town of JAUGADA itself and the Tosali one on a boulder at Dhauli, 5 km n. n.-w. from SISUPALGARH, also a fortified town. In the absence of any other ruined towns near by SISUPALGARH may be safely identified with Tosalī and Jaugada with Samāpā.