Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c12.s3.t2.5

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Inscriptions are also sometimes useful in the historical study of minor sects. A. L. Basham, for example, in his classic study of the Ājīvikas,⁴⁸ cites inscriptions attesting to the continued presence of members of this sect in the Tamil country as late as the fourteenth century. Even the heterodox skeptics of the Lokāyata tradition are attested in inscriptions, as noted by B. A. Saletore,⁴⁹ who has traced several references to them in Karnataka inscriptions of the tenth to fifteenth centuries.