Wiktionary:About Ashokan Prakrit

Ashokan Prakrit is the Early attested in the edicts of the Mauryan emperor  placed throughout the Indian subcontinent in the 3rd century BCE. On Wiktionary, the name Ashokan Prakrit is taken as representative of this stage of Indo-Aryan, and all reconstructions at this stage (for example, for a term with reflexes attested in the non-Dardic Indo-Aryan languages) should be treated as Ashokan Prakrit.

For a model entry, see.

Script
All entries are to be in the Brahmi script or the Kharoshthi script (only for the edicts in Shahbazgarhi and Mansehra). Reconstructed entries are to be in the Brahmi script and true to the reconstructed phonology of the term.

Since Ashokan Prakrit did not explicitly write geminates, when it is possible to infer a geminate (based on Sanskrit and later IA evidence), the ts parameter can be passed to headword/link templates. E.g. 🇨🇬. Reconstructed terms should indicate geminates in the way later Middle Indo-Aryan languages did.

Dialects
is to be used in all non-reconstructed entries to show the regional distributions of variants of terms in the Ashokan edicts and inscriptions.