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Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c9.s2.t7.92

Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c9.s2.t7.92

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Other sites in central Asia have yielded various specimens of Indic epigraphic and quasi-epigraphic records in both Kharoṣṭhī and Brāhmī. At Mīrān, for example, there are several short Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions among the wall paintings.¹³⁰ Paintings at other cave temple sites such as Qyzyl and Bezeklik are sometimes labeled with Sanskrit inscriptions in central Asian Brāhmī; outstanding examples were found in Bezeklik temple no. 9.¹³¹