Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c8.s3.t7.3
Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c8.s3.t7.3
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The spread of epigraphic Sanskrit to the south in subsequent centuries can also be attributed to the influence, direct or indirect, of the Western Kṣatrapas. In this connection it is significant that the earliest southern Indian Sanskrit inscriptions come from Nāgārjunakoṇḍa (see 3.3.4), since other inscriptions from the same site attest to the connections of the Kṣatrapas and other western Indian rulers with it; for instance, a Nāgārjunakoṇḍa memorial pillar inscription of the time of King Rudrapuruṣadatta (EI 34, 20–2) attests to a marital alliance between the Western Kṣatrapas and the Ikṣvāku rulers of Nāgārjunakoṇḍa.