Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c14.s4.2

c14.s4.2

| Language | “Niya Prakrit,” i.e., the central Asian dialect of Gāndhārī (prose) |
| Type and format | Ink on wooden wedge under-tablet |
| Purpose | Gives an official order for an inquiry into a protest lodged by one Sucamma |
| Date | None given; ca. third century A.D. |
| References | A. M. Boyer, E. J. Rapson, and É. Senart, *Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions Discovered by Sir Aurel Stein*, part II, 240, no. 638, and plate XI; translation in T. Burrow, *A Translation of the Kharoṣṭhī Documents from Chinese Turkestan*, 133. |