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Shahbaz Garhi, or Shahbazgarhi, is a village and historic site located in Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is at an altitude of 293 metres (964 feet). [1] It is about 12 km from Mardan city. It has mountains, green trees, open fields and a small river in the centre of the village.
Kandahar Greek Inscription (portions of Rock Edicts 12 and 13in Greek) and Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription (bilingual Greek-Aramaic), in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Shahbazgarhi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (in Kharosthi script) Mansehra Rock Edicts, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan (in Kharosthi script)
The Dhauli Major Rock Inscription of Ashoka. The front is shaped as an elephant. Dhauli, Khordha district of Odisha, India. The major rock edits of Ashoka include: [4] [5] Rock Edict I Prohibits animal slaughter. Bans festive gatherings and killings of animals. Only two peacocks and one deer were killed in Asoka’s kitchen.
The first known inscription by Ashoka, the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription, in Greek and in Aramaic, written in the 10th year of his reign (260 BCE). [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The Edicts are divided into four categories, according to their size (Minor or Major) and according to their medium (Rock or Pillar).
The edicts are inscribed on an outcrop of a small rocky mountain outside the city of Mansehra in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The site is located near to the Karakoram Highway on the ancient Silk Route.
The Minor Rock Edict were written quite early in the reign of Ashoka, from the 11th year of his reign at the earliest (according to his own inscription, "two and a half years after becoming a secular Buddhist", i.e. two and a half years at least after the Kalinga conquest of the eighth year of his reign, which is the starting point for his gradual conversion to Buddhism).
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The appearance of the terms Rathika, Ristika (Rashtrika) or Lathika in conjunction with the terms Kambhoja and Gandhara in some Ashokan inscriptions of the 2nd century BCE from Mansera and Shahbazgarhi in North Western Frontier Province (present day Pakistan), Girnar and Dhavali and the use of the epithet "Ratta" in many later inscriptions had prompted a claim by Reu that the earliest ...