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*4.3.3.3.2 Inscriptions of the later Western Kṣatrapas.* Several dedicatory stone inscriptions in Sanskrit or hybrid language belonging to the reigns of the later Western Kṣatrapa line of Caṣṭana (the so-called Kārdamaka line) have been found in the Kathiawar and Kacch regions of Gujarat. The Western Kṣatrapa inscriptions are collected in V. V. Mirashi's *History and Inscriptions of the Sātavāhanas and the Western Kṣatrapas*. By far the longest and most important of these is the Junāgaḍh rock inscription of Rudradāman (SI I.175–80), which is the earliest (ca. A.D. 150) long Sanskrit inscription and is of great historical and literary significance. An important recent discovery in this class is the Andhau inscription of the year 11 of the reign of Caṣṭana (JAIH 2, 104–11), whose earliest previously known date was 52.⁸⁴