Dhauli to Jaugada
- Mauryan Kalinga
Ashoka had his officers carve the very same orders on rocks at Dhauli and at Jaugada. The two towns ran his new province of Kalinga together, so people must have travelled between them.
Ashoka's officers had to visit both Dhauli and Jaugada, the two towns that ran his new province of Kalinga.
Ashoka had his officers carve the same orders on rocks at Dhauli and at Jaugada. One copy speaks to officials at Tosali, near Dhauli. The other speaks to officials at Samapa, near Jaugada. Historians think the two towns ran Ashoka’s new province of Kalinga together. [Hultzsch, 1925, Hultzsch, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum I (1925), pp. xiii-xv, xxxvii-xxxviii]
Scholars describe the edicts at both places as one Mauryan government. Its governor sat at Tosali. [Kulke, 1998, 3rd edn (Routledge, 1998), pp. 63-64]
For scholars
No source here describes an actual road between Dhauli and Jaugada. It does not describe a real trip either. The link drawn is a guess. Both towns carried the same imperial orders. Both belonged to one province, run from Tosali. The distance, about 100 km, is schematic. The line shown is read off a modern map. It is not a surveyed route. [Hultzsch, 1925, Hultzsch, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum I (1925), pp. xiii-xv, xxxvii-xxxviii; Kulke, 1998, 3rd edn (Routledge, 1998), pp. 63-64]
Facts
- Mode
- Overland
- From
- Dhauli
- To
- Jaugada
Scholar notes
No source read here describes an actual road or a specific journey between the two sites; the connection drawn is administrative inference - both towns carried the same imperial edicts and belonged to one province governed from Tosali. The distance (about 100 km) and the line are schematic, read off a modern map, not a surveyed route. Do not raise this tier without a source describing real travel between them.
- *Separate Rock Edicts of Ashoka at Dhauli and Jaugada*. ed. Eugen Hultzsch. 1925. public domain , Hultzsch, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum I (1925), pp. xiii-xv, xxxvii-xxxviii (Both sites carry the same two Separate Rock Edicts, addressed respectively to the Mahamatras of Tosali (Dhauli) and of Samapa (Jaugada); Hultzsch treats the two as the administrative centres of one Mauryan province, Kalinga.)
- Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund. *A History of India*. Routledge. 1998 , 3rd edn (Routledge, 1998), pp. 63-64 (Describes the edicts at Dhauli and Jaugada together, with the governor seated at Tosali - both sites presented as seats of one Mauryan provincial administration.)