Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c11.s2.23

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Among the excavations undertaken under Marshall’s auspices that yielded major epigraphic finds were those at Sārnāth, Nālandā, Bhīṭā, and Basāṛh. The results of such excavations were reported in detail in the New Series of Annual Reports (ASIAR), which commenced in 1902 and continued until 1937. The commitment of the new regime to epigraphic studies was further demonstrated by the creation in 1906 of the post of “Government Epigraphist for India,” in the person of Sten Konow, and by the support obtained for the central Asian expeditions of Marc Aurel Stein in the first two decades of the twentieth century, which resulted in epigraphic discoveries of vast significance (see 4.3.7.12).