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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World – ELENA FAVILLI

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Did you know that Emperor Ashoka’s edicts were not only carved in Sanskrit, but in many local dialects? Ashoka shared his new outlook on life through edicts carved into stones and pillars located around the country at pilgrimage sites and along busy trade routes. They were not carved in Sanskrit—the official state language—but in local dialects, so that the messages could be widely understood. For example, an edict near modern-day Kandahar in Afghanistan, an area that had been under Alexander the Great’s control for a period of time, is written in Greek and Aramaic.