Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c9.s2.t7.17

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Sanskrit inscriptions in Brāhmī script and its local derivatives are found in Nepal in large numbers from the fifth century¹⁰¹ until recent times. The inscriptions of the Licchavi period (fifth–ninth centuries), numbering about two hundred, mostly on stone, have tended to attract the attention of epigraphists and historians; most of the anthologies cited here consist exclusively or mainly of inscriptions of this period.¹⁰² This material includes some outstanding specimens of the *praśasti* style, such as the Cāṅgu-Nārāyaṇa pillar inscription of Mānadeva (SI I.378–82), which is the oldest dated inscription of Nepal ([Śaka?] 386 = A.D. 464/65).