Difference Between Edicts And Inscriptions
An edict is a decree or announcement of a law, often associated with monarchism, but it can be under any official authority. An edict may be issued in any number of physical forms. While an inscription is a text produced by carving the letters into a solid surface, but the actual content of the text may be more or less anything.
- Some inscriptions may contain edicts, and some edicts may be issued or made available in the form of inscriptions.
- Rock edicts are lettering or engraving on only large rocks while as inscription means engraving itself on an kind of material-pillars, stones, coins, buildings and rocks as well.
- Rock edicts mostly convey decrees and proclamations of a king but inscriptions had a wide content. Hence, it can be said that all rock edicts are inscriptions but all inscriptions are not rock edicts.
Also refer :
- Download the pdf of Important MCQs From the History Of Ancient India
- List Of Important Inscriptions In India
