Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c8.s5.t3.7

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Some medieval inscriptions in Hebrew have been found in southern India, for example, a tombstone of a.d. 1269 from Chennamangalam (IA 59, 134–5).⁹⁴ A similar Hebrew inscription of a.d. 1251, together with two others in Himyaritic, were found in Bhuj (EI 19, 300–2), but these are thought to have been brought to India from South Arabia (301). There are also a few Hebrew graffiti from near Chilas among the newly discovered inscriptions on the upper Indus (K. Jettmar, *Orientalia Iosephi Tucci Memoriae Dicata* [for reference see Index of Inscriptions Cited], II.667–70). Armenian tombstone inscriptions, mostly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, are found in fair numbers in various parts of India, especially in Bengal, Madras, and the west coast, for example, the epitaph at the Little Mount, Madras (EI 6, 89).⁹⁵