Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c8.s4.t3.2

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Inscriptions in Gujarati from various parts of the modern state of Gujarat, especially the Kathiawar and Kacch regions, number well in the hundreds; for examples see Diskalkar, nos. 79, 82–3, 85, 87–8, 90, and so on, and ARIE 1969–70, nos. B.22–138. Gujarati linguistic features appear in some Sanskrit inscriptions of the fourteenth century (e.g., Diskalkar nos. 36–7, etc.; *New Indian Antiquary* 1, 587–8), and inscriptions written entirely or nearly entirely in Gujarati date from the second half of the fifteenth century on. The latest Gujarati inscription cited by Diskalkar (no. 193) is dated Vikrama Saṃvat 1935 = A.D. 1879.