Photo: Varun Shiv Kapur from New Delhi, India · CC BY 2.0Black stone slabs carrying a Sanskrit play written by the Chahamana king Vigraharaja IV himself, with a second play written in his honour.
The Harakeli Nataka retells, after Bharavi’s Kiratarjuniya, how Arjuna fought Bhagwan Shiva come as a hunter and won the Pashupata weapon. The slabs are dated Samvat 1210. Other slabs carry the Lalitavigraharaja Nataka of the court poet Somadeva, about the king himself.
They show that the site of the Adhai Din ka Jhonpra was a Sanskrit centre of the Chahamanas before the mosque was raised there after 1192.
InscriptionA treaty between the Hittite king Suppiluliuma I and Shattiwaza, prince of Mitanni in north Syria, sworn before the gods of both kingdoms. Among the Mitanni gods stand four names any Vedic priest would know.
InscriptionThe Persian king Darius I tells, in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian, how he took the throne and which lands obeyed him. Gandhara is on the list.
InscriptionAshoka’s message of dhamma, carved in Greek and Aramaic for the Greek and Persian-speaking subjects at the western edge of his empire.
InscriptionFourteen major rock edicts, minor rock edicts and seven pillar edicts in which the Maurya emperor speaks in his own voice, as Devanampiya Piyadasi.
InscriptionIn conquered Kalinga, Ashoka left out the thirteenth rock edict, which mourns the war, and carved two separate edicts addressed to his officers there instead.
InscriptionA small bronze-copper plate in early Brahmi, issued by the officials of Shravasti, cast with symbols of storehouses above the text.
InscriptionSeventeen lines in Prakrit and Brahmi recording, year by year, the reign of Kharavela, the Jain emperor of Kalinga.
InscriptionA stone Garuda-dhvaja raised to Vasudeva by Heliodorus, a Greek envoy from Takshashila, at the court of King Bhagabhadra.
