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Question
Picture study:
The picture shows Ashoka’s pillars at Firoz Shah Kotla. Find out.
- Where was it originally installed?
- Who brought it to Delhi?
- How did Ashoka use edicts to spread Dhamma in his kingdom?
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Solution
- Topra (Haryana).
- Firoz Shah Tughlaq.
- Ashoka explained Dhamma in the edicts, which were mainly written in Brahmi script, He used Prakrit, the language of the common people in these edicts. Thus, the common people could easily understand his teachings of Dhamma,
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