File:AsokaKandahar.jpg

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  • Azərbaycanca: Qəndəharda Aşoka Padşahin iki dildə (Yunan və Arami) yazılmış yazı. 3-cü əsr E.ə. Qabaqcada Kabil Müzeyidə idi, sonra görünməz oldu.

  • English: Bilingual (Greek & Aramaic) inscriptions by king Ashoka at Kandahar (Shar-i-kuna). (3rd century B.C.E.). Preserved at Kabul Museum. Today disappeared. Two-dimensional inscription.

  • Esperanto: Dulingva (greka kaj aramea) surskriboj de Reĝo Aŝoka ĉe Kandahar (ŝar-i-kuna). 3a jarcento antaŭ la nuna erao. Antaŭe de la Muzeo de Kabul, poste malaperis. Du-dimensia surskribo.

  • Español: Inscripción en dos idiomas (griego y arameo) por el rey Ashoka en Kandahar (Shar-i-kuna). Siglo III AEC. Antes en el Museo de Kabul, hoy desaparecida. Inscripción de dos dimensiones.

  • Français : Inscription bilingue (en grec et araméen) par le roi Ashoka à Kandahar (Shar-i-kuna). (3e siècle avant J.-C.). Objet disparu, précédemment conservé au musée de Kaboul. Inscription en deux dimensions.
Date 12:08 P.M., November 27, C.E.2016 (H.E.12,016)
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Author पाटलिपुत्र (Patna)

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Greek (transliteration)

  1. δέκα ἐτῶν πληρη[....]ων βασι[λ]εὺς
  2. Πιοδασσης εὐσέβεια[ν ἔδ]ε[ι]ξεν τοῖς ἀν-
  3. θρώποις, καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου εὐσεβεστέρους
  4. τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἐποίησεν καὶ πάντα
  5. εὐθηνεῖ κατὰ πᾶσαν γῆν• καὶ ἀπέχεται
  6. βασιλεὺς τῶν ἐμψύχων καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ δὲ
  7. ἀνθρωποι καὶ ὅσοι θηρευταὶ ἤ αλιείς
  8. βασιλέως πέπαυνται θηρεύοντες καὶ
  9. εἲ τινες ἀκρατεῖς πέπαυνται τῆς ἀκρα-
  10. σίας κατὰ δύναμιν, καὶ ἐνήκοοι πατρὶ
  11. καὶ μητρὶ καὶ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων παρὰ
  12. τὰ πρότερον καὶ τοῦ λοιποῦ λῶιον
  13. καὶ ἄμεινον κατὰ πάντα ταῦτα
  14. ποιοῦντες διάξουσιν.

English (translation)

  1. Ten years (of reign) having been completed, King
  2. Piodasses (Ashoka) made known (the doctrine of)
  3. Piety (εὐσέβεια, Eusebeia) to men; and from this moment he has made
  4. men more pious, and everything thrives throughout
  5. the whole world. And the king abstains from (killing)
  6. living beings, and other men and those who (are)
  7. huntsmen and fishermen of the king have desisted
  8. from hunting. And if some (were) intemperate, they
  9. have ceased from their intemperance as was in their
  10. power; and obedient to their father and mother and to
  11. the elders, in opposition to the past also in the future,
  12. by so acting on every occasion, they will live better
  13. and more happily." (Trans. by G.P. Carratelli [1], see also here)

Aramaic (in Hebrew alphabet)

  1. שנן 10 פתיתו עביד זי מראן פרידארש מלכא קשיטא מהקשט
  2. מן אדין זעיר מרעא לכלהם אנשן וכלהם אדושיא הובד
  3. ובכל ארקא ראם שתי ואף זי זנה כמאכלא למראן מלכא זעיר
  4. קטלן זנה למחזה כלהם אנשן אתהחסינן אזי נוניא אחדן
  5. אלך אנשן פתיזבת כנם זי פרבסת הוין אלך אתהחסינן מן
  6. פרבסתי והופתיסתי לאמוהי ולאבוהי ולמזישתיא אנסן
  7. איך אסרהי חלקותא ולא איתי דינא לכלהם אנשיא חסין
  8. זנה הותיר לכלהם אנשן ואוסף יהותר.

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