Ashoka died in 232 B.C. in the thirty-eighth year of his reign. Asoka's edicts are to be found scattered in more than thirty places throughout India, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Most of them are written in Brahmi script from which all Indian scripts and many of those used in Southeast Asia later developed.

Which Indian king issued many inscriptions?

► Ashoka (273-236 BC) was one of the most successful and powerful kings whose large number of edicts came into light from in India, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. ► Inscribed on the rocks and the pillars they talk about the reforms in Ashoka's policies and his advice to his subjects.

Which Indian king engraved maximum inscriptions?

Asoka's Edicts & Inscriptions. The inscriptions and edicts of Asoka refer to a collection of 33 inscriptions on the Pillars of Asoka, as well as boulders and cave walls, made by the Emperor Asoka during his reign from 272 to 231 BC dispersed throughout the areas of modern-day Pakistan, Nepal and India.