Place · Ashokan inscription · Pakistan
Mānsehra
The Mauryan rock edict site in Mansehra district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on the ancient road from Taxila to Kashmir and Central Asia, carrying Ashoka's fourteen major rock edicts cut into three boulders in Kharosthi script around 258 BCE. Together with Shahbazgarhi, Mansehra is one of the only two Kharosthi major-edict sites in the empire, marking the Gandharan corridor through which Mauryan missionary and administrative language reached Central Asia. The road these inscriptions sit on later carried Chinese pilgrim Fa Xian in 400 CE and Xuanzang in 630 CE on their journeys to the Buddhist heartland.
- Function
- Text & inscription
- Tradition
- Ashokan edicts (Brahmi, Kharosthi, Greek, Aramaic)
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 34.333, 73.167
Connections (1)
- Imperial inscription atPātaliputra
Mansehra's edicts are cut into three boulders on the road running toward Kashmir and Central Asia, again in Kharosthi. Its position is the point: the inscriptions mark the routes out of the empire, not its interior. Anyone travelling north from Taxila toward the mountain passes passed this rock, and was meant to.
On these journeys
Sources
Mansehra Rock Edicts — Wikipedia
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