Through a series of edicts carved in stone and placed throughout the empire, Ashoka proclaimed to his people the importance of Buddhist values and his beliefs about how his people should act.

A delegation of Sri Lankan Buddhist Monks visited Ashoka's Rock Edict at Shahbazgarhi in Mardan District ... who succeeded to the throne in about 274 B.C. The set of fourteen edicts at Shahbaz Garhi ...

These pillars were in fact a sort of public address system: their purpose was to carry, carved on them, proclamations or edicts from Ashoka ... his people through a rock edict: "The Kalinga ...

The dominant rock formations belong to the Indravati Group ... Carved over 2,200 years ago, the Ashokan Edicts of Madhya Pradesh stand as timeless messages of dharma, governance, and peace ...

These pillars were in fact a sort of public address system: their purpose was to carry, carved on them, proclamations or edicts from Ashoka ... his people through a rock edict: "The Kalinga ...