"All men are my children. What I desire for my own children, and I desire their welfare and happiness both in this world and the next, that I desire for all men."

"Everywhere in my dominion the Yuktas, the Rajjukas and the Pradesikas shall set out on tour every five years for this very purpose - to instruct people in Dhamma."

"Thus speaks King Priyadarsin, Beloved of the Gods: Everywhere in the dominions of King Priyadarsin, Beloved of the Gods, and likewise in the borderlands such as Chola, Pandya, Satiyaputra, Keralaputra…"

"I have had this inscription of Dharma engraved in order that my sons and great-grandsons may not consider making new conquests, or that if military conquests are made, that they be done with forbearan…"

"I have had this inscription of Dhamma engraved that men may conform to it and that it may endure for a long time."