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The Lion Capital of Ashoka is the capital, or head, of a column erected by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in Sarnath, India, c. 250 BCE. Its crowning features [ 1 ] are four life-sized lions set back to back on a drum-shaped abacus .
The pillars of Ashoka are a series of monolithic columns dispersed throughout the Indian subcontinent, erected—or at least inscribed with edicts—by the 3rd Mauryan Emperor Ashoka the Great, who reigned from c. 268 to 232 BC. [2] Ashoka used the expression Dhaṃma thaṃbhā (Dharma stambha), i.e. "pillars of the Dharma" to describe his own ...
Sarnath (also referred to as Deer Park, [1] [2] [3] Sarangnath, Isispatana, Rishipattana, Migadaya, or Mrigadava) [4] is a town located 8 kilometres (5.0 miles) northeast of Varanasi, near the confluence of the Ganges and the Varuna rivers in Uttar Pradesh, India.
The original Lion Capital of Ashoka, 3rd century BCE, Sarnath Museum. The emblem forms a part of the official letterhead of the Government of India and appears on all Indian currency as well. It also functions as the national emblem of India in many places and appears prominently on Indian passports.
The inscription technique is generally very poor compared for example to the later Major Pillar Edicts, however the Minor Pillar Edicts are often associated with some of the artistically most sophisticated pillar capitals of Ashoka, such as the renowned Lion Capital of Ashoka which crowned the Sarnath Minor Pillar Edict, or the very similar ...
Sarnath Museum is the oldest site museum of the Archaeological Survey of India. It houses the findings and excavations at the archaeological site of Sarnath , by the Archaeological Survey of India. Sarnath is located near Varanasi , in the state of Uttar Pradesh .
The Allahabad Pillar is a stambha, containing one of the pillar edicts of Ashoka, erected by Ashoka, emperor of the Maurya dynasty, who reigned in the 3rd century BCE. While it is one of the few extant pillars that carry Ashokan edicts, [3] it is particularly notable for containing later inscriptions attributed to the Gupta emperor Samudragupta (4th century CE). [4]
Ashoka, also known as Asoka or Aśoka (/ ə ˈ ʃ oʊ k ə / [7] ə-SHOH-kə; Sanskrit pronunciation: [ɐˈɕoːkɐ], IAST: Aśoka; c. 304 – 232 BCE), and popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was Emperor of Magadha [8] from c. 268 BCE until his death in 232 BCE, and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynasty.