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Historians say
Finely polished sandstone, one of the Pillars of Ashoka, originally topped by a lion capital echoing Sarnath's. IT CARRIES TWO INSCRIPTIONS: the Ashokan SCHISM EDICT, and a Gupta-period inscription in ornamental SANKHA LIPI.