Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c9.s2.t7.95

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A rare example of an Indian inscription from China proper is the Kharoṣṭhī stone record from the neighborhood of Lo-yang (*BSOAS* 24, 517–30). Recently, a bronze Buddha with a pedestal inscription in Kharoṣṭhī has also been found at Shifosi in Chang’an county, Shaanxi Province.¹³² Inscriptions recording Sanskrit Buddhist *dhāraṇīs* in Siddhamātṛkā and other Indic scripts are found in some numbers in China; an outstanding example is the polyglot inscriptions from Chü Yung Kuan with the *Uṣṇīṣavijaya-* and *Tathāgatahṛdaya-dhāraṇīs* in Lanstsha (Nepali) as well as in Tibetan and four other non-Indic scripts.¹³³ Several other *dhāraṇī* inscriptions in Siddhamātṛkā on stone, brick, and other materials have been found in Yünnan Province.¹³⁴