Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c2.11
Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300 c2.11
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As regards the nomenclature of those same varieties of the Kharōshṭhī alphabet, it is now certain that it is erroneous to describe one of them, mentioned there and discussed on page 27 f., as a 'Saka variety. 'Suḍasa-'Soḍāsa and Patika were not 'Sakas, or Sakas, if that should be the correct expression according to the original form of the name.³ None of the Sakas, 'Sakas, ever played a leading historical part in Northern India.