c. 260 BC–c. 232 BC
Ashoka’s edicts as inscribed governance
Law & constitutions · Administración, escritura y gobierno
Ashoka’s rock and pillar edicts communicated instructions on government, dhamma, and administrative relations in the Mauryan Empire. They are recorded here as a legal and public technology of inscription, not as a modern constitution or a summary of Buddhist traditions.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- End
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: duration of a process.
Sources
- whc.unesco.org (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Pending verification: the source could not be accessed
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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