Ashoka Inscription on rock at the foot of Girnar Hill, near Junagadh. Photographer: Sykes, David Harold Day
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Genre: Archaeological Photography India Museum No. 1606. Another copy of this print in 'Archaeological Survey of Western India', II, pl. ix. See p. 93ff. for description and translation.
Ashokan edict pillar at Lauriya Araraj, Champaran District. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
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Genre: Architectural Photography 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 378-379: 'There is no capital, and the whole has been much disfigured by the names which visitors have cut upon it'; facsimile and translation of the inscription in 'Epigraphia Indica', vol. II, pp. 245...
Close view of first half of Asoka Edict, Sasaram. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
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View of a portion of the edict, 'In a small cave now called Chiragh-dan or lamp-room of Pir Chandan Shahid, and some 30 feet to the west of the Shahid's grave, which is situated on the summit of the Chandan Pir Hill some 3 miles east of the town.' (Kuraishi, op. cit., p. 183).