Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c8.s3.t1.4
Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c8.s3.t1.4
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⁴⁴ The paleographic estimate of a date in the first century B.C. is corroborated by the statement that the donor is the “sixth [in descent] of [i.e., from; cf. SI I.95 n. 3] General Puṣyamitra” (*senāpateḥ puṣyamitrasya ṣaṣṭhena*), since the Puṣyamitra referred to is presumably the founder of the Śuṅga dynasty in ca. 187 B.C.