Highlights
- The Brahmi edict that first named Ashoka.
- The granite-boulder setting.
- The surrounding prehistoric mound.
At Maski, a Minor Rock Edict of Emperor Ashoka is carved on a granite boulder amid a prehistoric site.
It was the first of Ashoka’s edicts found to name "Devanampriya Ashoka", which conclusively identified the imperial title Devanampriya with Ashoka himself; it is an ASI monument of national importance.
Road km to Raichur; ghat roads and traffic vary — allow extra.
October to February; morning light.
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At Maski, ~90 km from Raichur; by road
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A great rock hill fort near Mudgal in Lingsugur taluk, long contested between the Bahmani and Vijayanagara empires — a Bala Hisar tower, water channels and gateways, with prehistoric rock paintings in the hills nearby.
23.5 km · ~39 min by cab · straight lineHutti (Hatti) in Lingsugur taluk is India's only major working gold mine — a landscape of ancient hand-dug workings overlaid by the modern deep underground mine of the state gold company.
26.4 km · ~44 min by cab · straight lineAn island fort in the Krishna near Lingsugur — a "fort on water" of seven gates on a rocky river island, held by the Adil Shahis, where the Krishna cascades in the seasonal Jaladurga falls. (The island is Raichur district; the opposite bank is Yadgir.)
40.8 km · ~68 min by cab · straight lineThe old ruined hill fort of Manvi, birthplace of the Haridasa saint Jagannatha Dasa, with a hilltop Mallikarjuna shrine and an internal dargah within its bastioned walls.
42.8 km · ~71 min by cab · straight lineA Neolithic ashmound and settlement site at Kallur in Manvi taluk, near a Mahalakshmi temple with a rare three-linga pedestal and a Chalukyan Markandeshwara shrine — a layered prehistoric-and-medieval site.
62.6 km · ~104 min by cab · straight lineThe temple town of Gabbur (Garbhapura) with some thirty mostly Kalyani-Chalukya temples and around twenty-eight inscriptions, including a 1109 CE agrahara grant of Vikramaditya VI — Lakshmi-Venkateshwara, Hanuman and Basaveshwara shrines among them.
66.3 km · ~111 min by cab · straight lineOctober to February; morning light.
Entry: Free. Timings: Daylight hours.
At Maski town, about 90 km from Raichur; reached by road. A fragile protected inscription — do not touch or chalk the letters.
30 to 45 minutes.
Nearby you can pair Mudgal Fort (23.5 km), Hutti Gold Mines (26.4 km), Jaladurga Fort (40.8 km), Manvi Fort (42.8 km).
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Route-level itineraries and practical guides for the rest of Karnataka.
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