And on top of the most famous of all Ashoka's pillars are the four lions facing outward - the lions that are still one of the emblems of India today. The pillar that our fragment comes from was ...

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And on top of the most famous of all Ashoka's pillars are the four lions facing outward - the lions that are still one of the emblems of India today. The pillar that our fragment comes from was ...