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title: Ashoka's pillar
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# Ashoka's pillar
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## Image File
[](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/1411.jpg)
## Image Caption
[Ashoka](https://www.worldhistory.org/Ashoka_the_Great/)'s pillar erected in the district of Vaishali, located in the Bihar state, [India](https://www.worldhistory.org/india/). This is one of the nineteen surviving columns erected or at least inscribed with edicts by the Emperor Ashoka during his reign in the 3rd century BCE. These columns are also referred to as the "Pillars of Ashoka" and they are dispersed throughout the northern Indian subcontinent. Many are preserved in a fragmentary state, averaging between forty and fifty feet in height, and weighing up to fifty tons each, the pillars were dragged, sometimes hundreds of miles, to where they were erected.
## Cite This Work
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Undisclosed. (2013, September 02). Ashoka's pillar. *World History Encyclopedia*.
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## License & Copyright
[Original image](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asokanpillar1.jpg) by [**Undisclosed**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asokanpillar1.jpg). Submitted by [Cristian Violatti](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/violatti/ "User Page: Cristian Violatti"), published on 02 September 2013. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0deed.en). This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon a work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. When republishing on the web a hyperlink back to the original content source URL must be included. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.