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ashok shilalekh

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Ashoka’s Rock Edicts belong to 250 BC where around 14 edicts of Ashoka are located on the route to the Mount Girnar Hills. This rock edict is a huge stone and the carving in Brahmi script in Pali language mention the resistance to greed and animal sacrifice and also moralize the principles of purity of thought, secularism in thinking, kindness and gratitude. The other major part of Junagadh’s Buddhist heritage are the stone edicts of Emperor Ashoka, found on the road towards Mt. Girnar. When Ashoka famously converted to Buddhism and renounced violence, on his way to being one of India’s most revered and respected rulers of all time, he had edicts carved in stone and placed in sites all across India (ranging as far as Kandahar in present-day Afghanistan in the West, modern Bangladesh in the East, Andhra Pradesh in the south) with precepts for living a virtuous life, respecting others and creating a just society. Speaking in moral and ethical terms, not religious ones (though the Buddha...
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adi kadi vav

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The stepwell is located in the Uparkot fort of Junagadh, and it served as a water source for those who lived inside the fort’s stone walls. The Adi Kadi Vav is descended by an extensive flight of steps (162 to be precise) leading to the shaft of this enormous well. It’s 41 m deep, 81 m long and 4.75 m wide, and the entire structure was cut out of solid rock. The step well has no external elements whatsoever. You won’t find here any kutas (pavilion towers), niches or bracing beams, which are so typical for the ornate stepwells of Gujarat, but the rock strata along the walkway look fantastic. There were hardly anyvisitors, so I had the stepwell more or less entirely to myself. 
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asian lions

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Sasangir (Sasan Gir) Forest & Sanctuary is known for its population of the only pure Asiatic lions in the world. Situated only 65 kilometers/40 miles from Junagadh, it is connected by both rail and road. The sanctuary covers an area of 500 square miles of dry, open scrub and forest where the lions roam freely and can be seen on guided jeep tours through the jungles
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