Indian Palaeography c18.s2.4

c18.s2.4

To this area of the Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions must now be added Chinese Turkestan, from the discovery there of a Prakrit *Dhammapada* in 1892 by the French traveller, Dutreuil de Rhins, and later of numerous Kharoṣṭhī documents by Sir Aurel Stein. This limited area within which Kharoṣṭhī was used helped in maintaining the unitary style of this writing, and there was hardly any chance for its branching out into provincial schools, as was the case with the Brāhmī.