c. 260 BCE–c. 232 BCE
Ashoka’s edicts
World history · Politics · Culture
During Ashoka’s reign, rock and pillar inscriptions communicated policies and principles of dhamma across the Mauryan Empire. They are sources for government and public communication as well as evidence of his links to Buddhism; they do not by themselves summarize the experience of the whole subcontinent.
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
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- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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