Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c14.s1.1

c14.s1.1

| Location | Bhārhut, Satna Dist., MP (now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta) |
| Script | Brāhmī of the Śuṅga period |
| Language | Central-western epigraphic Prakrit (prose) |
| Type and format | Label inscriptions, on a stone railing pillar from the south-east quadrant of the Buddhist *stūpa* |
| Purpose | Explanatory labels for the accompanying sculptured scene |
| Date | None given; ca. second century B.C. |
| References | Lüders, *Bhārhut Inscriptions* (CII 2.2), nos. B 32–4, pp. 105–9 + plates XIX and XXXVIII; B. Barua and K. G. Sinha, *Barhut Inscriptions*, nos. II.5a–c, pp. 59–61. |