*Asokan Edict Pillar, Lauriya Nandangarh, Champaran district; a photo by Sir Benjamin Simpson, c.1860's* (BL)
also: *Rear view of the Asokan Edict Pillar, Lauriya Nandangarh, Champaran District* (BL) [*Simpson 1860's 2*]

A distant view

Approaching the pillar and seeing it from nearby

A detail of the capital

The Brahmi inscription on the pillar


Source: The four mages above are courtesy of Prof. Frederick Asher, Univ. of Minnesota, October 1999

A modern visitor's photo

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunainasuneja/211826694/
(downloaded Sept. 2006)

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