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Pillar Edict VI

Curved sandstone fragment with two surviving lines of Ashoka’s Brahmi inscription in a museum display

Ashoka’s Edicts and the Limits of Imperial Dhamma

Ashoka’s inscriptions joined remorse, welfare, and religious restraint to an imperial government that still claimed the power to punish.

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