Talk:Pillars of Ashoka

message: It seems this pillar has absolutely nothing to do with Ashoka (it date to the Gupta period, 3-5th century). Shouldn't it be the object of a different article? PHG 12:56, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree: I just found it has its own section at Qutb complex, so the material here could be merged. Tearlach 19:11, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Any source for this attribution of the Delhi iron pillar to Ashoka? PHG 00:58, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Delhi iron pillar

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 19:10, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: The swastica wouldn't have had anything to do with Nazism of course but it may have been the source that Hitler copied. There is no guarrantee that Ahoka was peaceful unless it served his purposes but he certainly wasn't like Hitler. Furthermore it is not unusual for tyrants like Hitler to claim peace symbols for their own. 
On another note the pillar at Vaishali is suposedly 17 to 18.3 meters high and at the base 2 meters diameter narrower at top. This would be about 30 cubic meters of sandstone. The average density of sanstone is 2.7 tons per cubic meter which would come to about 80 tons, 30 tons heavier than official estimates. This is larger than the rest of the pillars that I know of and the dimensions have not all been confirmed so I'm not citing it without confirmation but this one is clearly larger than the officail estimates.
Zacherystaylor (talk) 07:10, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  history 

message: For some strange reason the editor has deleted the information regarding Ranajit Pal's recent suggestion that the Pillar of Ashoka which was brought to Delhi from Topra near Chandigarh may, in fact, have been an altar of Alexander which was re-inscribed by Ashoka. This has been published in a peer reviewed Journal (Scholia, vol. 15) but the editor claims to know more.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mejda (talk • contribs) 01:58, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Editor is not well-informed 

message: And if IP editors insist on reinserting unrelated christian commentary it's easy enough to get the page semi-protected. Simonm223 (talk) 22:10, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia not for missionary activity 

message: This article seems to be restricted to the historical pillars on the Indian subcontinent only. Replicas were also created - and some have even been built in modern times - elsewhere. For example, there is a very prominent Ashoka Pillar in central Shanghai (see Jing'an Temple). I think the breadth of the influence of this structure should be documented somewhere, but is this article the right place for it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.189.73.197 (talk) 10:57, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, please feel free to create a new section on historical replicas, and provide reliable sources for any new material you add. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 11:19, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replicas elsewhere 

message: there are commonalities between indian, greek, persian and babylonian because this region was as a whole connected in ancient times from sumerian and indus valley civilization.
The commonalities are being given the colour of borrowings, the article fails to show any example which can be attributed as a direct borrowing from one single piece from ancient west.
the lion of ashoka is thought to imitate babylonian/ meopotamian, while lion mask of indus civilization shows a very similar feature being discussed like eyes, nose, mouth, fur etc, observe the wavy conical lines on the beard of the lion. The mauryan polish is discussed as being brought from iran, but polished stone carved vessels from piprahwa stupa from buddha's time have been excavated according to ASI and many glass beads, crystal polished glass reliquary etc not to forget Northern black polished ware which appeared in seventh cen BC. The greek lions also show similarity with the mesopotamian lions as do their spinx as far as greek pillar spinx is concerned, the greek spinx are not depicted in ashokan pillars, only lions are depicted the pillars infront of temple are also depicted in a saurashtra coin before the macedonian invasions. The double headed roaring lion bust is also depicted in indus civilization art, while there are no contemporary mesopotamia artitic styles which show ashoka sarnath capital style four lions. greek sitting spinx artwork can be traced to second mil BC in levant. The greek pillar is made of wood, while asokan pillar is made of single block of sandstone,  greek pillars are also segmented so ashokan pillars can be more related to roman pillars which come later because they employ same techniques used in ashoka period. 115.135.130.182 (talk) 16:23, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  commonalities not influences