Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s3.t3.1

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In South Asia, the Kharoṣṭhī script is preserved principally in inscriptions, mostly on stone but also on metal and other materials, numbering in the hundreds. The vast majority of these are Buddhist records, mostly concerning pious donations and foundations. Kharoṣṭhī was also extensively used in the coin legends of the Indo-Greeks, Indo-Scythians, and other foreign rulers of India, as well as of some indigenous polities such as the so-called tribal republics of the Audumbaras, Kuṇindas, and Rājanyas. Kharoṣṭhī was rarely used by itself on coins; most specimens are biscriptual (or even triscriptual), in combination with legends in Greek and/or Brāhmī (2.3.1).