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But although Konow’s general comments about the Kharoṣṭhī area “proper” still hold true, numerous discoveries since his time have provided many examples of inscriptions and other documents in Kharoṣṭhī script ranging over a much broader area.¹²³ To the far west and northwest, we can now add to the handful of inscriptions known to Konow several more specimens (for details see 4.3.7.3) from sites along the Kabul River in Afghanistan as far west as Wardak or Khawat,¹²⁴ some thirty miles west of Kabul. Recent archaeological excavations have also yielded numerous Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions from north of the Hindu Kush, in ancient Bactria, both in sites in northern Afghanistan such as Qunduz and in several places in the former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (see 4.3.7.3 and 4.3.7.4).