Rock edicts of Khalsi

Rock edicts of Khalsi
Rock edicts of Khalsi
	Rock edicts of Khalsi (Edicts N°1 to 12 and beginning of Edit N°13 of Ashoka on the main face of Khalsi rock).
Material	Rock
Writing	Pali in Brahmi script
Created	circa 250 BCE
Period/culture	Maurya Empire
Present location	Khalsi, Dehradun District, Uttarakhand, India
	Khalsi Khalsi (South Asia)

30°31′05″N 77°50′54″E / 30.5180°N 77.8482°E / 30.5180; 77.8482

The Khalsi inscription is one of many Edicts of Ashoka, which ultimately cover almost all of his territory.

The Rock edicts of Khalsi, also spelled Kalsi, are a group of an Indian rock inscriptions written by the Indian Emperor Ashoka around 250 BCE. They contain some of the most important of the Edicts of Ashoka. The inscription in Khalsi contains all the Major Rock Edicts, from 1 to 14. They were discovered in Khalsi, a village in Uttarakhand, northern India, by Alexander Cunningham about 1850.

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