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Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c9.s2.t7.13

Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c9.s2.t7.13

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c9.s2.t7.13

Pāli inscriptions are, somewhat surprisingly, very rare; Dias (op. cit.) lists only three. An interesting example of a Pāli inscription (originally misread as “mixed Sanskrit”) is the Abhayagiri copper plate (EZ 3, 169–71), containing a verse from the *Vaṭṭaka Jātaka*.

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