Who is piyadassi?
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Posted by Swati Kiran 4 years, 3 months ago
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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 3 months ago
Most of the inscriptions referred a king as Piyadassi, meant 'pleasant to behold' and a few inscriptions mentioned the king as Asoka, one of the famous rulers known from Buddhist texts.
Gaurav Seth 4 years, 3 months ago
In the 1830s James Prinsep, an officer in the mint of the East India Company, deciphered Brahmi and Kharosthi, two scripts used in the earliest inscriptions and coins. He found that most of these mentioned a king referred to as Piyadassi – meaning “pleasant to behold”.
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