Rock edicts of Khalsi
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Rock edicts of Khalsi | |
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Material | Rock |
Writing | Pali in Brahmi script |
Created | circa 250 BCE |
Period/culture | Maurya Empire |
Present location | Khalsi, Dehradun District, Uttarakhand, India |
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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.