The
Hathigumpha Inscription ("Elephant Cave" inscription), from
Udayagiri, near
Bhubaneswar in
Odisha, was inscribed by
Kharavela, the then Emperor of
Kalinga in
India, during 2nd century BCE. The Hathigumpha Inscription consists of seventeen lines in a Central-Western form of
Prakrit incised in a deep-cut
Brahmi script on the overhanging brow of a natural cavern called Hathigumpha in the southern side of the Udayagiri hill, near Bhubaneswar in Odisha. It faces straight towards the Rock Edicts of
Ashoka at
Dhauli, situated at a distance of about six miles.