Ashoka: dhamma, edicts and their sites
- Kalinga war, the turn to dhamma, Rock Edict XII on respect for all sects, tolerance as policy
- Major and minor rock edicts, pillar edicts, separate Kalinga edicts; Brahmi, Kharosthi, Greek and Aramaic versions
- Edict sites
- James Prinsep deciphers Brahmi and Kharosthi (1837); Devanampiya Piyadasi identified as Ashoka
- Dhamma mahamatras, welfare measures, missions to Sri Lanka and Hellenistic kings
- Kanganahalli relief labelled 'Ranyo Ashoka' as the only inscribed portrait of Ashoka