Consider the following pairs: Site of Ashoka's Major Rock Edicts Location in the State of Dha

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Consider the following pairs:    Site of Ashoka's Major Rock Edicts Location in the State of     Dhauli Odisha   Erragudi Andhra Pradesh   Jaugada Madhya Pradesh   Kalsi Karnataka    How many pairs given above are correctly matched?

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The set of 14 major rock edicts (or portions thereof) occur at:Kandahar (in Kandahar district, south Afghanistan) (only portions of rock edicts 12 and 13)Shahbazgarhi (Peshawar district, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan)Mansehra (Hazara district, NWFP, Pakistan)Kalsi (Dehradun district, Uttarakhand)Girnar (Junagadh district, Gujarat)Mumbai–Sopara (originally at Sopara in Thane district, Maharashtra; now in the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai; only fragments of rock edicts 8 and 9)Dhauli (Puri district, Orissa; separate rock edicts 1 and 2 replace major rock edicts 11–13)Jaugada (Ganjam district, Orissa; separate rock edicts 1 and 2 replace major rock edicts 11–13)Erragudi (Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh)Sannati (Gulbarga district, Karnataka; portions of rock edicts 12 and 14 and separate rock edicts 1 and 2 were found on a granite slab in a medieval goddess temple.)Source Citation: NCERT: Our Past II, NCERT: Themes in Indian History