Kalsi (Kālsī) is a town in
Dehradun District
Dehradun district () is a district in Garhwal which is a part of Uttarakhand state in northern India. The district headquarters is Dehradun, which has also served as the interim capital of Uttarakhand since its founding in 2000. The district ha ...
,
Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand (, ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; List of renamed places in India, the official name until 2007), is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. The state is bordered by Himachal Pradesh to the n ...
. It is known for the
Rock edicts of Kalsi, a group of major inscriptions by emperor
Ashoka
Ashoka, also known as Asoka or Aśoka ( ; , ; – 232 BCE), and popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was List of Mauryan emperors, Emperor of Magadha from until #Death, his death in 232 BCE, and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynast ...
. The Kalsi rock contains the Major Rock Edicts 1 to 14.
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The Kalsi rock edict of Ashoka No.13, mentions the Greek kings Antiochus Antiochus (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίοχος) is a Greek male personal name, likely meaning "resolute in contention", or "unwavering". It is derived from the two words αντί ("against") and ὄχη ("support"). It was a dynastic name for rulers of ...
, Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...
, Antigonus Antigonus or Antigonos (), a Greek name meaning "comparable to his father" or "worthy of his father", may refer to:
Rulers
* Three Macedonian kings of the Antigonid dynasty that succeeded Alexander the Great:
** Antigonus I Monophthalmus (382� ...
, Magas Magas may refer to:
Places
* Magas, Russia, the capital of the Republic of Ingushetia
* Magas, the Persian name of Maghas, the historical capital of medieval Alania
* Magas Urban Okrug, a municipal formation into which the town of republic signif ...
and Alexander
Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
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by name, as recipients of his teachings.
References
Edicts of Ashoka
Cities and towns in Dehradun district
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