Moral Codes of Ashoka
Ashoka in Rock Edict XII and many other edicts prescribes the following codes:
Obedience to mother and father, elders, teachers and other respectable persons.
Respect towards teachers
Proper treatment towards ascetics, relations, slaves, servants and dependents, the poor and miserable, friends, acquaintances and companions
Abstention from killing of living beings
Non-injury to all living creatures
Spending little and accumulating little wealth
Truthfulness
Purity of heart
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