Rock edicts of Khalsi (Edicts N°1 to 12 and beginning of Edit N°13 of Ashoka on the main face of Khalsi rock).
Material
Rock
Writing
Pali in Brahmi script
Created
circa 250 BCE
Period/culture
Maurya Empire
Present location
Khalsi, Dehradun District, Uttarakhand, India
Khalsi
Khalsi (South Asia)
Edict No13 of Ashoka, Khalsi inscription, with the identification of Hellenistic kings Antiochos II, Ptolemy II, Antigonos II Gonatas, Magas of Cyrene and Alexander II of Epirus[1]The Khalsi inscription is one of many Edicts of Ashoka, which ultimately cover almost all of his territory.
The Rock edicts of Khalsi, also spelled Kalsi, are a group of an Indian rock inscriptions written by the Indian Emperor Ashoka around 250 BCE. They contain some of the most important of the Edicts of Ashoka. The inscription in Khalsi contains all the Major Rock Edicts, from 1 to 14. They were discovered in Khalsi, a village in Uttarakhand, northern India, by Alexander Cunningham about 1850.
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