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[[File:Jaugada rock with Ashoka Major Rock Edict.jpg|thumb|Large rock with Ashoka inscriptions (behind the house) at Jaugada in 1895]]<br />
[[File:Jgd plan new.svg|thumb|Plan of the ancient settlement]]<br />
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'''Jaugada''' ("Jaugarh", ancient Samapa]) is a ruined fortress in the [[Ganjam district]] in [[Odisha]], [[India]]. Jaugada lies 35&nbsp;km north-west of [[Berhampur]] and 160&nbsp;km south-west of [[Bhubaneshwar]]. Once a provincial [[Maurya Empire|Mauryan]] fortified capital of the newly conquered province of [[Kalinga (historical kingdom)|Kalinga]], Jaugada is famed by its version of the monumental [[Edicts of Ashoka|stone-cut edicts]] in [[Prakrit]] of the Mauryan emperor [[Ashoka]].<br />
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Despite [[J.D. Beglar]]'s description during the later 19th century of the extant fortification towers and moat ("The walls had towers, also of earth, at each of the four corners, and also on each flank of each of the eight entrances"), without photos and drawings, the remains are difficult to visualize and comprehend. In 1956 Debala Mitra of the [[Archaeological Survey of India]] transected the northern glacis with a trench. The now collapsed trench of this investigation appears to lie just east of the eastern gate of the north wall. It is near the great [[Shiva temple]] Kaleswar & Rameswar (which is known as a temple where [[Shiva]] and [[Vishnu]] are seen together).<br />
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This site was first documented in 2001 by a team from the [[University of Heidelberg]].<br />
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;Edicts of Ashoka<br />
Jaugada is the location of some of the [[Major Rock Edicts]] of [[Ashoka]], inscribed circa 250 BCE: Major Rock Edicts 1-10 and 14 are inscribed on a central rock in the compound, as well as Separate Edicts 1&2.<ref name=DKC>The Geopolitical Orbits of Ancient India: The Geographical Frames of the ... by Dilip K Chakrabarty [https://books.google.com/books?id=EIAyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT32 p.32]</ref> This configuration is similar to that of the nearby [[Dhauli]] Edicts of Ashoka (250&nbsp;km to the northeast).<br />
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File:Jaugada rock inscription.jpg|Ashokan inscription<br />
File:Ashoka edict jaugada3.png|Ashoka's Rock Edict at Jaugada<br />
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==References==<br />
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* Yule, Paul, Early Historic Sites in Orissa (Delhi 2006) {{ISBN|81-89645-44-7}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://berhampurphoto.blogspot.com/2011/07/jaugada-ruined-fortress-of-mauryan.html Photo Gallery of Jaugada]<br />
* [http://berhampurphoto.blogspot.com/2011/07/jaugada-ruined-fortress-of-mauryan.html Ashokan Rock - Edicts - Jaugada - Ganjam] -[https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=19.520155,84.830031&spn=0.011447,0.013797&t=h&lci=com.panoramio.all&z=16 maps.google]<br />
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[[Category:History of Odisha]]<br />
[[Category:Maurya Empire]]<br />
[[Category:Archaeological monuments in Odisha]]</div>->Tom.Reding