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The pillars of Ashoka are a series of monolithic pillars dispersed throughout the Indian subcontinent, erected—or at least inscribed with edicts—by the 3rd Mauryan Emperor Ashoka the Great, who reigned from c. 268 to 232 BC.
The Lion Capital of Ashoka is the capital, or head, of a column erected by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka the Great [1] in Sarnath, India, c. 250 BCE. Its crowning features [2] are four life-sized lions set back to back on a drum-shaped abacus.
The National Emblem is the graphic representation of the Lion Capital that originally graced the top of the Ashok Stambh or Ashoka Pillar at Sarnath, along with the National Motto written below it.
On January 26, 1950 the India Lion Capital was made the country's National Emblem, thus identifying the sovereignty and the birth of a new republic state of India.
The Allahabad pillar is a stambha, containing one of the pillar edicts of Ashoka, erected by Ashoka, emperor of the Maurya dynasty, who reigned in the 3rd century BCE.
Site of Buddha’s First Sermon. The most celebrated of the Ashokan pillars is the one erected at Sarnath, the site of Buddha’s First Sermon where he shared the Four Noble Truths (the dharma or the law).
में समुद्रगुप्त अशोक स्तंभ (Ashok Stambh) को कौशाम्बी से प्रयाग लाया और उसके दरबारी कवि हरिषेण द्वारा रचित प्रयाग-प्रशस्ति इस पर खुदवाया गया। इसके बाद 1605 ई. में इस स्तम्भ पर मुगल सम्राट जहाँगीर के तख्त पर बैठने की कहानी भी इलाहाबाद स्थित अशोक स्तंभ पर उत्कीर्ण है। माना जाता है कि 1800 ई.
