Ashoka Rock Edicts — Original Inscriptions.
Tourists photograph the white Shanti Stupa and miss the actual rock edicts carved into the hillside below it — these are the original 261 BCE inscriptions that mark where Ashoka's war guilt was first written downWHY NOBODY KNOWS
At the foot of Dhauligiri, a major rock inscription carries 11 of Ashoka's 14 edicts in Prakrit/Brahmi — installed by the emperor after the Kalinga War so that "every wave of the Daya river would whisper peace" to soldiers garrisoned here — see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhauli
