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.

I'm with the object now - it's a fragment of stone ... precepts of monarchy." Ashoka's political and moral philosophy - as he expressed it in his imperial inscriptions - initiated a tradition ...

“During the Mahakumbh, a replica of Emperor Ashoka’s pillar will be displayed for devotees from across the country and abroad. The inscription on this pillar, known in history as Prayag ...

India's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Santosh Jha has laid the foundation stone of an Ashoka Pillar in the sacred Waskaduwa temple in the island nation's Western province. Jha, who took over as ...