Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c14.s2.1

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c14.s2.1

| Location | Kalawān, near Taxila, Rawalpindi Dist., NWFP, Pakistan |
| Script | Kharoṣṭhī of the middle (Kuṣāṇa) period |
| Language | Northwestern or Gāndhārī Prakrit (prose) |
| Type and format | Reliquary deposit inscription on a copper plate placed in the foundation of a *stūpa* |
| Purpose | Records the dedication of bodily relics [of the Buddha] in the *stūpa* at Chaḍaśilā by the lay follower Caṃdrabhi |
| Date | 134 of the Azes [= Vikrama] year, 23rd day of Śrāvaṇa = A.D. 77 |
| References | S. Konow, "Kalawān Copper-plate Inscription of the Year 134," JRAS 1932, 949–65; Konow, "Kalawan Copper-plate Inscription of the Year 134," EI 21, 1931–32, 251–9; J. Marshall, *Taxila*, I.327; D. C. Sircar, SI I.131–2. |