Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c9.s2.t7.31

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Some later Sanskrit inscriptions in late Brāhmī of about around the fifth to eighth centuries have also been found in Afghanistan in recent decades. Worthy of note are the Dilberjin fresco inscription (*Drevniaia Baktriia* [for reference see Index of Inscriptions Cited], 170–1); the Gardez inscription on an image of Gaṇeśa (*EI* 35, 44–7); and the Umā-Maheśvara image inscription from Tapa Skandar (*JESI* 1, 1–6). Several Buddhist inscriptions of this period with the “Buddhist creed” (cf. 4.1.7) on votive clay tablets have also been discovered at Ghaznī (*East and West*, n.s. 20, 74–7). An unusual and enigmatic Brāhmī inscription on a mud-plaster floor was found at Tapa Sardār (*East and West*, n.s. 29, 265–9).