Editing Ashoka (section)

==External links==
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* {{Commons category-inline|Ashoka}}
* BBC Radio 4: Sunil Khilnani, ''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tpy82 Incarnations: Ashoka.]''
* BBC Radio 4: Melvyn Bragg with Richard Gombrich et al., ''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0511tm1 In Our Time, Ashoka the Great]''.
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! colspan=6 style="background:#ccf; font-size: 130%;"| [[Edicts of Ashoka]]<br /><small>{{nobold|(Ruled 269–232 BCE)}}</small>
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!style="background-color:#cdcdcd;"|Regnal years<br />of Ashoka
!colspan=4 style="background-color:#cdcdcd;"|Type of Edict<br />(and location of the inscriptions)
!style="background-color:#cdcdcd;"|Geographical location
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| Year 8
|colspan=4 |''End of the [[Kalinga War]] and conversion to the "[[Dharma]]"''
| rowspan=10|{{Map of the Edicts of Ashoka}}
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| rowspan=3|Year 10
|align=left style="background-color:#cdcdcd;"|'''[[Minor Rock Edicts]]'''
|colspan=3 rowspan=4|'''Related events:'''<br />Visit to the [[Bodhi tree]] in [[Bodh Gaya]]<br />Construction of the [[Mahabodhi Temple]] and [[Diamond throne]] in Bodh Gaya<br />Predication throughout India.<br />Dissenssions in the [[Sangha]]<br />[[Third Buddhist Council]]<br />In Indian language: [[Sohgaura copper plate inscription|Sohgaura inscription]]<br />Erection of the [[Pillars of Ashoka]]
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| style="background-color:#dcdcdc;"|[[Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription]]<br /><small>(in [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Aramaic]], [[Kandahar]])</small>
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| style="background-color:#dcdcdc;"|Minor Rock Edicts in [[Aramaic]]:<br />[[Aramaic Inscription of Laghman|Laghman Inscription]], [[Aramaic Inscription of Taxila|Taxila inscription]]
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| Year 11 and later
| style="background-color:#dcdcdc;"|[[Minor Rock Edicts|Minor Rock Edicts (n°1, n°2 and n°3)]]<br /><small>([[Saru Maru|Panguraria]], [[:Commons:Category:Ashoka Rock Edict, Maski|Maski]], [[Palkigundu and Gavimath, Koppal|Palkigundu and Gavimath]], [[:Commons:Category:Ashoka Minor Rock Edict, Bahapur, Delhi|Bahapur/Srinivaspuri]], [[Bairat Temple|Bairat]], [[Ahraura]], [[:Commons:Category:Ashoka Minor Rock Edict, Gujarra|Gujarra]], [[Sasaram]], [[:Commons:Category:Ashoka Minor Rock Edicts, Rajula Mandagiri|Rajula Mandagiri]], [[:Commons:Category:Ashoka Minor Rock Edict, Yerragudi|Yerragudi]], [[:Commons:Category:Ashoka Minor Rock Edict, Udegolam|Udegolam]], [[:Commons:Category:Ashoka Minor Rock Edict, Nittur|Nittur]], [[Commons:Category:Ashoka Minor Rock Edict, Brahmagiri|Brahmagiri]], [[:Commons:Category:Ashoka Minor Rock Edict, Siddapur|Siddapur]], [[:Commons:Category:Ashoka Minor Rock Edict, Jatinga Rameshwara|Jatinga-Rameshwara]])</small>
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| rowspan=3 |Year 12 and later
| style="background-color:#dcdcdc;"|'''[[Barabar Caves|Barabar Caves inscriptions]]'''
|colspan=3 style="background-color:#cdcdcd;" width="40%"|'''[[Ashoka's Major Rock Edicts|Major Rock Edicts]]'''
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| style="background-color:#cdcdcd;"|'''[[Minor Pillar Edicts]]'''
|colspan=3 rowspan=2 style="background-color:#dcdcdc;"|Major Rock Edicts in Greek: [[Kandahar Greek Edict of Ashoka|Edicts n°12-13]] ([[Kandahar]])<br /><br />Major Rock Edicts in Indian language:<br />[[Major Rock Edicts|Edicts No.1 ~ No.14]]<br /><small>(in [[Kharoshthi]] script: [[Shahbaz Garhi|Shahbazgarhi]], [[Mansehra Rock Edicts|Mansehra Edicts]])</small><br /><small>(in the [[Brahmi script]]: [[Khalsi inscription|Kalsi]], [[Girnar]], [[Sopara]], [[Sannati]], [[:Commons:Category:Ashoka Minor Rock Edict, Yerragudi|Yerragudi]], [[Ashokan Edicts in Delhi|Delhi Edicts]])</small><br />Major Rock Edicts 1–10, 14, [[Major Rock Edicts|Separate Edicts 1&2]]:<br /><small>([[Dhauli]], [[Jaugada]])</small>
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| style="background-color:#dcdcdc;"|[[:Commons:Category:Schism Edict of Ashoka|Schism Edict]], [[:File:Ashoka Inscriptions Queen's edict.jpg|Queen's Edict]]<br /><small>([[Sarnath]] [[Sanchi]] [[Allahabad pillar|Allahabad]])</small><br />[[Lumbini pillar inscription|Lumbini inscription]], [[Nigali Sagar|Nigali Sagar inscription]]
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|rowspan=2 |Year 26, 27<br />and later
|colspan=2 style="background-color:#cdcdcd;"|'''[[Major Pillar Edicts]]'''
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|colspan=2 style="background-color:#dcdcdc;"|In Indian language:<br />[[Major Pillar Edicts|Major Pillar Edicts No.1 ~ No.7]]<br /><small>([[Allahabad pillar]] [[Ashokan Edicts in Delhi|Delhi-Meerut]] [[Delhi-Topra pillar|Delhi-Topra]] [[Rampurva]] [[Lauria Nandangarh]] [[Lauriya Araraj|Lauriya-Araraj]] [[:File:Amaravati Major Pillar Edict inscription.jpg|Amaravati]])</small><br />
Derived inscriptions in [[Aramaic]], on rock:<br />
[[Kandahar Aramaic inscription|Kandahar, Edict No.7]] and [[Pul-i-Darunteh Aramaic inscription|Pul-i-Darunteh, Edict No.5 or No.7]]
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