Who of the following had first deciphered the edicts of Emperor Ashoka?
Georg Bühler
James Prinsep
Max Müller
William Jones
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UPSC IAS – 2016
The first person to successfully decipher the ancient Brahmi script, which allowed for the reading and understanding of Ashoka’s edicts, was James Prinsep. Prinsep, an English scholar and antiquary, made this breakthrough in the 1830s while working as an assay master at the Calcutta Mint.