Muski is a historic town and a newly created taluk center in Raichur district of Karnataka state. Ashoka’s inscription found in the town of Muski has given historical significance to this city. This town is a prehistoric site known as Mosangi in inscriptions.
Muski is 427 km from Bangalore, 88 km from Raichur and 2.2 km from Muski city.
Ashoka’s Inscriptions Here Masangipur is recognized as a historical and spiritual area with stone inscriptions of Emperor Ashoka of the Mauya dynasty. An inscription named Devanampriya Ashoka was identified in 1915 AD by an engineer named C. Bidden. It is inscribed in Brahmi script. Here are stone age skeletons, heroic gallows and lightning bolt inscriptions.
