Ashoka's bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription at Kandahar

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An inscription carved at Chehel Zina near Kandahar in Greek and Aramaic, conventionally dated c. 260 BCE, promulgating Ashoka's dhamma to populations in their own languages. It is hard epigraphic evidence that a South Asian ruler was addressing Hellenistic and Iranian communities on the trade corridor to the west, and that the vocabulary of a tradition was already being translated at its frontier.

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