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TULASI-PRAJNĀ, March, 1990
(vi)
iv)
1st Group no cerebral n, ii) no palatal nasal ñ, iii) initial y is dropped. iv) I forr,
e becomes insted of o in place of masculine a-stem, 1st person, singular, locative -ASI
2nd Group difference of ñ and n,
conservation of initial y, iii) r remains,
nominative masculine o,
v) Locative -amhi. The Dhauli Rock edicts of Asokan Inscriptions consist of fourteen in number. But Hultzsch does not record the all. The three of them. eleventh, twelvth and thirteenth have been omitted in his edition. Inspite of them, there are also saperate Rock edicts of Dhauli.
Dhauli, a village is situated in the Khurda sub-division of Puri district in Orisa. Lieutenant Kittoe discovered the rock near Dhauli in 1837 and called it 'Aswastama'. It is situated on a rocky eminence forming one of a cluster of hills, three in number, on the south bank of the Dyah river".
"The hills before alluded to rise abruptly from the plains and occupy a space of about five furlongs by three; they have a singular
rence from their isolated position, no other hills being nearer than eight or ten miles. They are apparently volcanic, and composed of upheaved breccia with quartzose rock intermixed”.
"The Aswastama is situated on the northern face of the southern most rock near its summit, the rock has been hewn and polished for a space of fifteen feet long by ten in height, and the inscription deeply cut thereon."
"Immidiately above the inscription is a terrece sixteen feet by fourteen, on the right side of which (as you face the inscription) is the four half on an elephant, four feet hight, of superior workman. ship; the whole is hewn out of the solid rock”. 11
Hultzsch says thus, "while princep was examning a lithograph of Kittoe's copies, he found that the greater part of the Dhauli inscrip tion was identical with the Girnar edicis (JASB, 7. 157). He further ascertained that the Dhauli rock omits edicts XI to XIII of the Girnar
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