Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c14.11
Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c14.11
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c14.11
| Purpose | Records the erection of the pillar by Hēliodōros the Greek from Takhkhasilā (= Takṣaśīlā, i.e. Taxila), ambassador from King Aṃtalikita (Antialkidas) |
| Date | Fourteenth regnal year of King Kāsīputra Bhāgabhadra; late second century B.C.? |
| References | J. F. Fleet, “An Inscription from Besnagar,” JRAS 1909, 1087–92; L. D. Barnett, “The Besnagar Inscription B,” JRAS 1909, 1093–4; J. Ph. Vogel, “The Garuda Pillar of Besnagar,” ASIAR 1908–9, 126–9; Fleet, “The Besnagar Inscription A,” JRAS 1910, 141–2 and 815–7; D. C. Sircar, SI I.88–9; H. Lüders, *List of Brāhmī Inscriptions* (EI 10), no. 669, for further refs. |