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Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c10.s2.6

Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c10.s2.6

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¹⁹ Conversely, a verifiable date does not necessarily prove that an inscription is genuine, since a correct date from an authentic document may be copied into a forgery; or even, conceivably, the forgers might have gone to the trouble of calculating the correct date. For examples of spurious inscriptions with regular dates, see Kielhorn, IA 24, 1895, 9–10 (= KS II.687–8).

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