Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s3.t1.12

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the modern North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan; that is, the ancient Gandhāra and adjoining regions, with whose MIA language, nowadays usually called “Gāndhārī” (see 3.1.4.2.1), the script is almost invariably associated (see map 1). In Konow’s words, “The Kharoshṭhī area proper may be defined as extending from about 69° to 73° 30′ E. and from the Hindu Kush to about 33° N., and there can be little doubt that its place of origin was Gandhāra, perhaps more especially Taxila” (CII 2.1, xiv).¹²²