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The two new volumes of the CII published during this period marked major milestones. The first was Hultzsch’s revised edition of volume 1, *Inscriptions of Aśoka*, published in 1925. This volume not only replaced Cunningham’s original edition of CII 1, which had already been superseded long ago (see p. 219), but also incorporated and improved upon the editions of various Aśokan inscriptions published in the meantime by É. Senart, H. Kern, Bühler, and others. Hultzsch’s volume also included several inscriptions which had not yet been discovered at the time of the earlier edition, including the rock edicts at Mānsehrā, the Rāmpurvā pillar edicts, the minor pillar edicts from Nepal (Rummindeī and Nigālī Sāgar) and Sārnāth, and the minor rock edicts from Mysore (modern Karnataka), indicating continuing progress in the discovery as well as the study of Aśokan inscriptions. The second new volume was Sten Konow’s *Kharoshṭhī Inscriptions with the Exception of Those of Aśoka*, issued in 1929 as CII volume 2, part 1.¹²¹ The publication of this volume marked at long last a stage of maturity and development in Kharoṣṭhī studies such as had already been attained for Brāhmī several decades earlier.