Siddapur

Facsimile of the upper-half of the Siddapur inscription of Ashoka, from 'Inscriptions of Asoka' by Eugen Hultzsch. Photograph: Pataliputra (2018), Wikimedia Commons

A town in Karnataka, India, it is an archaeological site of rock-cut inscriptions from the third century BCE, which have been identified as the First and Second Minor Rock Edicts of the emperor Ashoka.