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English: Rock Edict of Ashoka, ca. 250 BC. Dhauli, near Bhubaneshvar
Dhauli is located in the ancient territory of Kalinga, now the state of Orissa, which the emperor Ashoka Maurya conquered with appalling loss of life in about 260 BC. Thereafter Ashoka repented of the violence which he had done, and converted to Buddhism. He expressed his remorse, and his intention to govern the kingdom according to the principles of his new faith, in a series of rock-cut edicts that he caused to be inscribed on over 100 monuments throughout his vast kingdom. Ashoka's Dhauli monument is seen in this photo. Its sculpted elephant faces east. His inscription is cut into the north face of the rock, below the sculpture. The hill temples in the background are modern: a white "peace" stupa built by the Japanese (l.), and a reconstructed Shiva temple (r.). |
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| current | 13:11, 2 May 2016 | | 2,592 × 1,944 (6.46 MB) | Drianmcdonald | Rotated so so that the temples are vertical. The rotation was my work, and I cede it to the public domain. (So the image is still CC-BY-SA) |
| 21:54, 30 July 2015 |  | 2,592 × 1,944 (4.09 MB) | G41rn8 | User created page with UploadWizard |
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