Lauriya Areraj, also Lauriya Areraj, is a location name in the East Champaran District of the State of Bihar in India.

[2] Despite the similarity of the names, it is located at a distance of 55 km to the southeast of the other Ashoka pillar at Lauriya Nandangarh.

[citation needed] The Pillar which bears in well-preserved and well-cut letters six of his edicts, is a single block of polished sandstone, 11.12 m (36.5 feet) in height above the ground, with a base diameter of 1.06 m (41.8 inches) and a diameter at the top of 0.95 m (37.6 inches).

It has no capital but there can be no doubt that it must once have been crowned with a statue of some animal.

Edict VI - The necessity for a definite creed.