Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c9.s2.t6.12

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Sanskrit inscriptions nevertheless did continue to be written into the eighteenth and occasionally the nineteenth centuries,⁹³ and while many of the later examples are inferior in both quality and historical significance, there are still some significant records, for example, the Udaipur *Rājapraśasti* (cf. 4.1.8 and 7.2.2.2.1). In general inscriptions of the Islamic era, and especially the later examples, are less extensively studied and documented than those of earlier times, but they are nonetheless of considerable interest and importance as literary, historical, and social documents.