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Ancient India: Ashoka, Mauryan Empire & the Silk Route
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Most Ashokan inscriptions are in the Brahmi script
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The vast majority of Emperor Ashoka's edicts and inscriptions across the Indian subcontinent were written in the Brahmi script and Prakrit language. A few inscriptions in the northwest used Kharosthi, Aramaic, or Greek, but Brahmi is predominant.