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In which Rock Edict is Ashoka named in person and not by his usual title ‘Devanampiya’?
1. Mahasthan
2. Taxila
3. Bahapur
4. Maski

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Correct Answer - Option 4 : Maski

The correct answer is Maski.

  • The Edicts of Ashoka are a collection of more than thirty inscriptions on the pillars, as well as boulders and cave walls, attributed to Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire who reigned from 268 BCE to 232 BCE.
  • He used the expression Dhaṃma Lipi (Prakrit in the Brahmi script, Inscriptions of the Dharma) to describe his own Edicts.
  • His identification of Devanampiya with Ashoka was confirmed by an inscription discovere by C. Beadon in 1915, a British gold-mining engineer, at Maski, a village in Raichur district of Karnataka state.
  • The Minor Rock Edicts (in which Ashoka is sometimes named in person, as in Maski and Gujarra) as well as the Minor Pillar Edicts are very religious in their content they mention extensively the Sangha, Buddhism and Buddhist scriptures (as in the Bairat Edict), and the Buddha (and even previous Buddhas as in the Nigali Sagar inscription).

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