Two recensions of the Fourteen Edicts, with modifications, exist on the eastern side of India, near the coast of the Bay of Bengal, within the limits of the kingdom of Kalinga conquered by Asoka in B. C. 261. Both recensions agree in omitting Edicts XI, XII, and XIII, which were considered unsuitable locally, and in substituting for them the Borderers’ and Provincials' Edicts specially drafted to meet the needs of the newly annexed province, and not published elsewhere.
The northern copy is incised on a rock called .Aswastama on the northern face and close to the summit of a hill near the village of Dhauli (N. lat. 20° 15′, E. long. 85° 50′), about seven miles to the south of Bhuvanesvar, in the Puri District, Orissa. The inscription occupies the prepared surface of a sloping sheet of stone, which is watched over from above by the Well-executed fore-part of an elephant, about 4 feet high, cut out of the solid rock. The viceregal town of Tosali appears to have been in the neighbourhood [1].
The southern version is engraved on the face of a rock situated at an elevation of about 120 feet in a mass of granitic gneiss rising near the centre of an ancient walled town called Jaugada or J ogadh (N. lat. 19° 33′, E. long. 84° 50′) in the Ganjam District,
- ↑ Imp. Gazetteer (1908), s. v. Dhauli; Cunningham, Inscriptions of Asoka, p. 15; Reports, xiii. 95. A photograph of the 'elephant forms the frontispiece of E. Hist. of India.
