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²⁰ All attempts to attribute specific dates to certain of the early inscriptions have been decisively discredited. For example, Ojhā’s (BPLM 2–3) dating of the Baṛlī inscription (SI 89–90) to the year 84 of a supposed Jaina era of 527 B.C., i.e., to 443 B.C., is out of the question; Sircar dates the inscription to the late second century B.C. on paleographic grounds. The alleged specimens of Kharoṣṭhī and Brāhmī letters on coins of the Achaemenian emperors of Iran are also doubtful (see 2.3.2 n. 132).