For the Beloved of the Gods, the king Piyadassi, sees much evil in festivals, though there are some of which the Beloved of the Gods, the king Piyadassi, approves.įormerly in the kitchens of the Beloved of the Gods, the king Piyadassi, many hundreds of thousands of living animals were killed daily for meat. Here, no living thing having been killed, is to be sacrificed nor is the holding of a festival permitted. The Beloved of the Gods, Piyadassi the king, has had this inscription on Dhamma engraved.
The Major Rock Edicts 1st Major Rock Edict The Pillar Edicts - Seven Pillar Edicts.Schism Edict (a conflation of the various versions).These include the Bhabra Inscription, the Rummindei Pillar Inscription, the Nigalisagar Pillar Inscription, and the Schism Edict.
A second section of this division consists of minor rock inscriptions concerned entirely with the Buddhist community or Buddhist generally.Minor Rock Edict (a conflation of the various versions).Minor Rock Inscriptions - The Minor Rock Edict, the Queen's Edict, the Barabar Cave Inscriptions, and the Kandahar bilingual Inscriptions.1st Separate Edict (Dhauli and Jaugada).Major Rock Edicts - Fourteen edicts and the two separate edicts found at sites in Kalinga.Information on Asoka - Table of Contents - The inscriptions have been divided as follows: The emphasis has been on providing a readable version of the original inscriptions.
Footnotes giving lengthy explanations of variations of meaning have been excluded. The translation is therefore not a literal one. In preparing this translation, we have had in mind the reader who is not familiar with the standard translations of Hultzsch and Bloch, or for whom these texts are not readily available. A Translation of the Edicts of Asoka (anonymous)
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