Rock and Pillar Edicts of Asoka

Glossary

• Ajivikas members of a mendicant order in India, contemporaries of the early Buddhists
• Council the Third Buddhist Council of the third century BCE
• heavenly cars celestial horse cars, or chariots, in procession
• Niganthas members of a dharmic order present in India during the time of Asoka
• Sakyans the tribe into which the Buddha was born
• Yuktas, Rajjukas, and Pradesikas royal inspectors