Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c9.s2.t7.35

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Archaeological excavations in recent decades in southern Uzbekistan (formerly USSR) have yielded several dozen specimens of Indic inscriptions from various sites in the region of ancient Bactria, mainly Kara Tepe and Faiaz Tepe near Termez in Uzbekistan. (A few have also been found at Pendzhikent, Adzhina Tepe, and other sites in neighboring Tajikistan.) Most of these date from the Kuṣāṇa period. The majority of the relics (like the contemporary ones from nearby Afghanistan) are potsherds with dedicatory inscriptions in Kharoṣṭhī script and Gāndhārī language; these are collected by M. I. Vorob’eva-Desiatovskaia in “Pamiatniki pis’mom kxaroshtxi i braxmi iz sovetskoi Srednei Azii” (see the bibliography), and by V