“…For you are placed over thousands of souls with the object of getting to the people’s affection.

All men are as my children. As, on behalf of my own children, I desire that they may be provided with complete welfare and happiness both in this world and the next, the same I desire also for (all) men…”

(Asoka, The Kalinga Rock Edicts, Dhauli)

“…In these sermons on stone we find his true self-revealed and expressed, his philosophy of life, his conception of an emperor’s duties and responsibilities, and the extent to which he lived to realise the high ideals and principles he professed and preached. This kind of evidence, which is not only a contemporary but a personal record, too, is unique in Indian history…”

(Radhakumud Mookerji, Asoka, 1927, Lucknow University)

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