Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c9.s2.t3.41

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contain similar but more extensive texts on the banishment of schismatics. The latter adds a note on Two short inscriptions from the Sītābeṅgā and Jogīmāṟā caves on the Rāmgaṛh hill (ASIAR 1903–4, 123–31) are estimated on paleographic grounds to belong to about the third century b.c. The Jogīmāṟā inscription is particularly interesting both for its language, being the only pure epigraphic specimen of Māgadhī (see 3.1.3) and for its unusual content (4.1.10), recording the love of one Devadina for Śutanukā, a temple prostitute (*devadaśikyi*).⁷⁵