over the past few months I asked some colleagues involved with early Indian sculpture
whether they could show me a good pdf of the Asoka statue at Kaganhalli, Sannati, Gulbarga, Karnataka.
I have a low resolution one but look for a better one.
This sculpture clearly identifies the king in question as Raya Asoka (in fairly early post-Asokan Brahmi script, from the Satavahana period).
See also the faint cover of Puratattva/Indian Archaeology in 1998/9 (I think)
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Also, some 10 years ago, the BBC broadcast that another statue of Asoka had been found in Orissa -- but we have not heard anything additional about it so far. Another Orissa stunt (like finding the real Lumbini in Orissa)?
Please let us know, and, if you have a good pdf, please send it to my address (as the lists usually strip all attachments from email messages)
A good weekend, still,
MIchael WItzel
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Michael Witzel
Wales Prof. of Sanskrit &
Director of Graduate Studies,
Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
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phone: 1- 617 - 495 3295, 496 8570, fax 617 - 496 8571;
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