Estampages of Girnar Edicts
An estampage is an impression of the inscription on a rock face. This can be obtained by pressing wet paper to the rock face. Estampages of Asokan edicts were prepared by ASI for their publication in a revised Corpus.
The following five images are estampages of the Girnar Rock Edicts. A comparison with Cunningham’s reproductions (see above) shows that his copies of the Girnar edicts are not faithful to the incised Brahmi characters. A note describing some of the differences can be seen here. Two digital photographs of the right half of the rock can be seen in that note as well as their author's page on the web.
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