UPSC Civil Services Model Paper 1

● Asokan pillars with inscriptions were found in places like Delhi, Allahabad, Rummindai, Sanchi, and Saranath. Hence statement 1 is incorrect
● 2 separate Rock Edicts found in Odisha (Kalinga).
Separate Kalinga Rock edict I .- Ashoka made his famous declaration, “ All men are my children”in Rock edict I. Hence statement 2 is incorrect.
◦ Kalinga Edict – II - Proclamation of edicts even to a single person.
● The effects of the Kalinga war were described by Asoka himself in the Rock edict XIII: “A hundred and fifty thousand were killed and many times that number perished…”, After the war, he annexed Kalinga to the Mauryan Empire.