Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c9.s2.t5.2

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During the period of the domination by a series of foreign rulers including the Indo-Greeks, Scythians, Parthians, and Kuṣāṇas, a large number of inscriptions in Kharoṣṭhī script and Gāndhārī or northwestern Prakrit language were recorded in northwestern India and adjoining areas of modern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan (see 2.3.1). The basic source for this material is still Konow’s *Kharoshṭhī Inscriptions* (CII 2.1), which contains ninety-six inscriptions, but this is badly outdated, since many more Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions have been discovered since its publication in 1929, especially in recent years (as discussed later). An up-to-date list and bibliography of Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions are given by G. Fussman in “Gāndhārī écrite, Gāndhārī parlée,” 444–51 and 488–98.