Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s5.t4.1

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Biscript inscriptions, that is, those written in the same language repeated in different scripts, are found occasionally in various periods, though they are much less common than bilingual inscriptions (see 3.6). In the northwest, inscriptions were occasionally written in both Brāhmī and Kharoṣṭhī scripts, for instance, the Kanhiāra and Pāṭhyār inscriptions (CII 2.1, 178–9).²²⁸ Another Brāhmī/Kharoṣṭhī biscript has recently been discovered in Mathurā (EI 40, 168–9). Inscribed seals often have legends in both Brāhmī and Kharoṣṭhī (e.g., CII 2.1, 100, no. 2; 102, no. 11); one seal in the British Museum has the name of the owner in these two scripts and in Greek as well (JRAS 1905, 809–13).