On the Origin of the Indian Brahma Alphabet c3.17
On the Origin of the Indian Brāhma Alphabet c3.17
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(2) An undated fragment of an Aśoka edict, found on one of the broken gate-pillars of the Sānchi Stūpa, proves that the structure certainly existed before the end of that king’s reign or, with Prof. Max Müller’s initial date, before B. C. 222/21, and the presumption is that all the Sānchi inscriptions, showing Aśoka characters, were incised before that year. By the attempt to fix the erection of the Sānchi Stūpa between B. C.