South Face of Pillar
(A) 1 Devānaṃpiye Piyadasi lājā hevaṃ āha
(B) saḍuvīsati-vasa-2abhisitena me imāni jātāni avadhiyāni kaṭāni seyathā 3 suke sālikā alune cakavāke haṃse naṃdīmukhe gelāṭe 4 jatūkā aṃbā-kapīlikā daḷī anaṭhika-mache vedaveyake 5 Gaṃgā-pupuṭake saṃkuja-mache kaphaṭ[a]-sayake paṃna-sase simale 6 saṃḍake okapiṃḍe palasate seta-kapote gāma-kapote 7 save catupade ye paṭibhogaṃ no eti na ca khādiyatī
(C) .......... i 8 [e]ḷaka cā sūkalī cā gabhinī va pāyamīnā vā avadhi[y . p . ta]ke 9 pi ca kāni āsaṃmāsike
(D) vadhi-kukuṭe no kaṭaviye
(E) tuse sajīve 10 no jhāpetaviye
(F) dave anaṭhāye vā vihisāye vā no jhāpetaviye
(G) 11 jīvena jīve no pusitaviye
(H) tīsu cātuṃmāsīsu tisāyaṃ puṃnamāsiyaṃ 12 tiṃni divasāni cāvudasaṃ paṃnaḍasaṃ paṭipadāy[e] dhuvaye cā 13 anuposathaṃ mache avadhiye no pi viketaviye
(I) etāni yevā divāsani 14 nāga-vanasi kevaṭa-bhogasi yāni aṃnāni pi jīva-nikāyāni 15 no haṃtaviyāni
(J) aṭhamī-pakhāye cāvudasāye paṃnaḍasāye tisāye 16 punāvasune tīsu cātuṃmāsīsu sudivasāye gone no nīlakhitaviye 17 ajake eḍake sūkale e vā pi aṃne nīlakhiyati no nīlakhitaviye
(K) 18 tisāye punāvasune cātuṃmāsiye cātuṃmāsi-pakhāye asvasā gonasā 19 lakhane no kaṭaviye
(L) yāva-saḍuvīsati-vasa-abhisitena me etāye 20 aṃtalikāye paṃnavīsati baṃdhana-mokhāni kaṭāni
(A) King Devānāṃpriya Priyadarśin speaks thus.
(B) (When I had been) anointed twenty-six years, the following animals were declared by me inviolable, viz. parrots, mainas, the aruṇa, ruddy geese, wild geese, the nandīmukha, the gelāṭa, bats, queen-ants, terrapins, boneless fish, the vedaveyaka, the Gaṅgā-pupuṭaka, skate-fish, tortoises and porcupines, squirrels(?), the sṛmara, bulls set at liberty, iguanas(?), the rhinoceros, white doves, domestic doves, (and) all the quadrupeds which are neither useful nor edible.
(C) Those [she-goats], ewes, and sows (which are) either with young or in milk, are inviolable, and also those (of their) yuong ones (which are) less than six months old.
(D) Cocks must not be caponed.
(E) Husks containing living animals must not be burnt.
(F) Forests must not be burnt either uselessly or in order to destroy (living beings).
(G) Living animals must not be fed with (other) living animals.
(H) Fish are inviolable, and must not be sold, on the three cāturmāsis (and) on the Tishyā full-moon during three days, (viz.) the fourteenth, the fifteenth, (and) the first (tithi), and invariably on every fast-day.
(I) Arid during these same days also no other classes of animals which are in the elephant-park (and) in the preserves of the fishermen must be killed.
(J) On the eighth (tithi) of (every) fortnight, on the fourteenth, on the fifteenth, on Tishya, on Punarvasu, on the three cāturmāsīs, (and) on festivals, bulls must not be castrated, (and) he-goats, rams, boars, and whatever other (animals) are castrated (otherwise), must not be castrated (then).
(K) On Tishyā, on Punarvasu, on the cāturmāsīs, (and) during the fortnight of (every) cāturmāsī, horses (and) bullocks must not be branded.
(L) Until (I had been) anointed twenty-six years, in this period the release of prisoners was ordered by me twenty-five (times).
B.–West Face of Pillar.
(A) 1 Devānaṃpiye Piyadasi lāja hevaṃ āha
(B) saḍuvīsati-vasābhisitasa me imāni p 2 jātāni avadhyāni kaṭāni seyath[ā] suke sālika alune cakavāke haṃse 3 naṃdīmukhe gelāṭe jatūka aṃbā-kapilika duḷi anaṭhika-mache vedaveyake 4 Gaṃgā-pupuṭake saṃkuja-mache kaphaṭa-seyake paṃna-sase simale saṃḍake okapimḍe 5 palasate seta-kapote gāma-kapote save catupade ye paṭibhogaṃ no eti na ca khādiyati
(C) 6 ajakā nāni eḍakā ca sūkalī ca gabhinī va pāyamīnā va avadhya potake ca kāni 7 āsaṃmāsike
(D) vadhi-kukuṭe no kaṭaviye
(E) tuse sajīve no jhāpayitaviye
(F) dāve anaṭhāye va 8 vihisāye va no jhāpayitaviye
(G) jīvena jīve no pusitaviye
(H) tīsu cātuṃmāsīsu 9 puṃmamāsiyaṃ tiṃni divasāni cāvudasaṃ paṃnaḷasaṃ paṭipadaṃ dhuvāye ca anuposathaṃ mache avadhye 10 no pi viketaviye
(I) etāni yeva divasāni nāga-vanasi kevaṭa-bhogasi yāni aṃnāni pi 11 jīva-nikāyāni no haṃtaviyāni
(J) aṭhami-pakhāye cāvudasāye paṃnaḷasāye tisāye punāvasune 12 tīsu cātuṃmāsīsu sudivasāye gone no nīlakhitaviye ajake eḷake sūkale e vā pi aṃne 13 nīlakhiyati no nīlakhitaviye
(K) tisāye punāvasune cātuṃmāsiye cātuṃmāsipakhāye asvasa gonasa 14 lakhane no kaṭaviye
(L) yāva-saḍuvīsati-vasābhisitena me etāye aṃtalikaye paṃnavīsati 15 baṃdhana-mokhāni kaṭāni
B.–South Face of Pillar.
(A) 1 Devānaṃpiye Piyadasi lāja hevaṃ āha
(B) saḍuvāsati-[va]sābhisitena me imāni pi jātāni avadhyāni kaṭāni seyathā 2 suke sālika alune cakavāke haṃse naṃdīmukhe gelāṭe jatūka aṃbā-kapilika duḷi anaṭhika-mache vedaveyake 3 Gaṃgā-pupuṭake saṃkuja-mache kaphaṭa-seyake paṃna-sase simale saṃḍake okapiṃḍe palasate seta-kapote 4 gāma-kapote save catupade ye paṭibhogam no eti na ca khādiyati
(C) ajakā nāni eḷaka ca sūkalī ca gabhinī va 5 pāyamīnā va avadhya potake ca kāni āsaṃmāsike
(D) vadhi-kukuṭe no kaṭaviye
(E) tuse sajīve no jhāpayitaviye
(F) 6 dāve anaṭhāye va vihisāye va no jhāpayitaviye
(G) jīvena jīve no pusitaviye
(H) tīsu cātuṃmā[s]īsu tisyaṃ puṃnamāsiyaṃ 7 tiṃni divasāni cāvudasaṃ paṃnaḍasaṃ paṭipadaṃ dhuvāye ca anuposathaṃ mache avadhye no pi viketaviye
(I) etāni yeva 8 divasāni nāga-vanasi kevaṭa-bhogasi yāni aṃnāni pi jīva-nikāyāni no haṃtaviyāni
(J) aṭhami-pakhāye cāvudasaye 9 paṃnaḍasāye tisāye punāvasune tīsu cātuṃmāsīsu sudivasāye gone no nilakhitaviye ajake eḷake sukale 10 e vā pi aṃne nīlakhiyati no nīlakhitaviye
(K) tisāye punāvasune cātuṃmāsiye cātuṃmāsi-pakhāye asvasa gonasa 11 lakhane no kaṭaviye
(L) yāva-saḍuvīsati-vasābhisitena me etāye aṃtalikāye paṃnavīsati baṃdhana-rnokhāni kaṭāni
