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Jaugada Rock Edict
Jaugada in Ganjam district is one of the two Odisha sites — with Dhauli outside Bhubaneswar — where Ashoka inscribed a Separate Kalinga Edict rather than the standard set, addressed to his mahamatras and softening the tone of imperial justice after the Kalinga war. The rock stands beside an ancient earthen fort on the Rushikulya river, and the inscription in Brahmi survives on fourteen edicts cut into granite. The pairing of Jaugada and Dhauli at the southern and northern edges of the Kalinga country is the only such regional double-set of Ashokan edicts anywhere in the subcontinent, and tells the Kalinga story in Ashoka's own voice.
- Function
- Text & inscription
- Patron dynasty
- Mauryan
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 19.518, 84.832
Connections (1)
- Site adjacencyDhauli
Jaugada and Dhauli are the two Ashokan rock-edict sites of Odisha, placed at the southern and northern frontiers of the Kalinga country he had just conquered. Both carry the standard major rock edicts and both carry a Separate Kalinga Edict addressing the mahamatras of justice in a softened administrative voice — the only pair of such double-edict sites anywhere in the subcontinent. The Jaugada edict is in Ganjam district above the Rushikulya; the Dhauli edict is in Khordha district above the Daya river where the Kalinga war itself was fought in 261 BCE.
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