The third section of the Edict Project ‘Ashok and Ecology’ will be held on August 29 in the campus of Ashok University. The university is deeply associated with the project as a result of the university’s partnership with Carnatic singer TM Krishna at the university.
Artists like Krishna, and MK Raina, Kapila Venu and Justin Macarthi (Ashok University) have worked together to re -imagine the Emperor’s Edicts and re -imagination. Nayanjot has interacted with the artists with the King of Ashoka University and helped him understand and explain the words of Edits.
Nayanjot Lahiri, MK Raina, Naresh Kerathi and TM Krishna at the 2022 Edict release event. Photo Credit: Courtesy: Ashok University
Nayanjot Maurya Emperor is a two -depth research award -winning writer who ruled Magadha from 268 BC in 232 BC: Ashok in ancient India And Search for Ashok: Search for a Buddhist king from India to ThailandHis books are the result of many broad visits for various sites where Ashoka’s impression is seen.
In the rugged scenarios across the country, irreversible, standing these addicts literally in stone. Emperor’s personality in Nayanjot’s books and in the Edict Project, Ashoka has excluded himself -with mercy towards living beings, with unique ideas of governance as well as being compassionate to personal fear and boundaries.
Ruisage Editing of Ashoka. , Photo Credit: Wikipedia
These are the messages of a king who removes war and think of humanity after the most war. Lives on Ashoka, and his words today speak with the same immedia and effectiveness as they did about 2,300 years ago when they first were in boulders, rock crops, columns, caves and once near urban sites. They are found in 50 places across India and beyond – Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka as well as Afghanistan, Nepal and Pakistan. Most of the adicts are in Prakrit language, while some are also in the Greek and Arami; The common script is Brahmi.
“Ashoka has fascinated the generations of Indians. There are many reasons for this. He not only ruled the largest empire of ancient India, but also wrote himself in Asian religious history by moving towards Buddhism. He fought a great war and believed that his human toll was a moral defeat.”
Ashoka’s stunned addicts | Photo Credit: Nayanjot Lahiri
He also has relevance for contemporary times as he was a master communicator. “Today we have television and social media. But first he told his messages – to millennium.”
“In early edits, she talks about Buddhism, but later, her focus is on speaking about the novel mode of governance he introduced, and what she believed that she was the criteria of public and personal conduct,” she explains.
However, Nayanjot explains Ashoka’s interpretation as an example of non -violence. “If you look at the Kalinga Addict in your total context, you know that there is violence there. And not only in relation to Kalinga, which he regrets and revives. Ashoka has given a message of his moral necklace and his kayapalat is muded in a person of peace because he cannot really control everyone. The non -violence is essentially located within the practice of non -violence.”
Nayanjot Lahiri Mauryan is the winning writer of two depth research on the Emperor
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She says that Ashoka was an all -India man who makes him the most interesting. “This is to do in ways in which the emperor visible himself through his edits in large parts of the Indian subcontinent. Uniquely among the world rulers of his time, Ashoka us not through the chronicle of a courtier, or not through a visitor to his kingdom, but not before their owners.” We were not before. “
Among the Edicts, Nayanjot’s favorite Allahabad has Rani’s editing and adicts in Deccan. Earlier, Ashoka’s queen Karuwaki says that all the donations made by her have to be registered as the mother of Tiwala (her son). The king says that this is what the queen wants and instructs her officials to do so. “It shows that Ashok gave women a place and agency”.
Ashoka’s presence in Deccan (Epigraphic imprint) is much higher than any other area. “It throws light on the fact that Ashok is as much emperor of Deccan as he is north.”
The Edict Project sown by Krishna is about to re-add Ashoka’s words in music and artistic forms, as well as a lively educational, socio-political and beauty interaction around him, “expanding Nanzot. “Krishna’s interest and curiosity is notable; I think I am working with him.”
Published – August 25, 2025 05:08 pm IST