Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c8.s2.t2.13

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Due to the limitations of the materials, it is not possible to specify with any precision the MIA dialect or dialects underlying the hybrid language. But both the geographical concentrations of the inscriptions in the Mathurā area and its predominant grammatical features such as the nominative masculine in *-o* indicate that the epigraphic dialect, like the Buddhist literary hybrid, reflects an underlying midland dialect (HBI 645).