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1. Calcutta-Bairat Rock Edict
Dr. Priyanka Singh
Banaras Hindu University

3. Location Bairat, Jaipur district, Rajsthan
Present Location Asiatic Society of Bengal
Script Brahmi
Language Prakrit
Lines Eight

4. Object Stone Slab Edict
Discovered by Captain Thomas Seymour Burt
year 1840

5. Calcutta-Bairat rock edict was discovered by captain Thomas
Seymour Burt. It is also known as Bhabru edict. Burt’s copy of the
Calcutta-Bairat edict was first lithographed, transcribed and
translated by Captain Markham Kittoe with the help of Pandit
Kamla Kanta and Published in The Journal of the Asiatic Society of
Bengal. Kittoe’s translation of this edict is broadly incorrect. senart
and E. Hultzsch published a revised version of it.

6. In this edict the King Ashoka states his faith in the Buddha, the
Dhamma and the Sangha. He refers to seven texts of Tripitaka (
Vinaya-Samukase, Aliya-Vasāni, Anagata-Bhayāni, Muni-gāthā,
Mouney-Sūte, Upatisa-pasine, Lāghulovāde) for he feels that these
texts would aptly explain Dhamma-pariyaya. He writes, ‘‘these
texts should always be followed by Bhikkhus, Bhikkunis, Upāsakās
and Upāsikās’’.