Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c8.s4.t6: 3.4.6 Nepali
Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c8.s4.t6
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3.4.6 Nepali
c8.s4.t6.1
Nepali did not become an important inscriptional language until relatively recently, the principal epigraphic languages of Nepal in earlier times being Sanskrit and Newari (see 3.5.3.3 and 4.3.7.2). It is only during the time of the Shāh kings in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that donative and dedicatory stone inscriptions in Nepali (often together with Sanskrit) were written in good numbers.⁸³
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⁸³ See section 4.3.7.2 for references.