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"In Ushavadātas cave [at Nāsik] we have one inscription (almost) entirely in Sanskrit, the rest are in Pāli or Prākrit, but we have an intermixture of Sanskrit words, and the conjuncts pra, tra, and ksha often appear. In these and the smaller inscriptions we have such words as *bāra* for *dvāra*, *bārasaka* for *vārshika*, *barisa* for *varsha*, *udisa* for *uddiśya*, while the Pāli forms of these words are *dvāra*, *vassika*, *vassa* and *uddesetvā*. Some of these inscriptions were engraved so late as the third century, when the Pāli could hardly have been the vernacular." (Ind. Ant. vol. XII, p. 140, first column, middle).