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Aśokan inscription from Jaugada in Prakrit language, Brahmi script.
"King Priyadarsi (Aśoka) the beloved of the God, addressed to the Mahāmātras stationed at Samapa in the following words: "All men are my children, just as in regard to my own children, I desire that they may be provided by me with all kinds of welfare and happiness in this world and in the next, the same I desire in respect of all men." [Orissa State]
