Indian Epigraphy c14.s3.12
Indian Epigraphy c14.s3.12
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c14.s3.12
The earliest inscriptions discovered in the Malay Peninsula are Buddhistic in nature.¹ A prose endorsement in one of them, besides the Buddhist creed, speaks of *Mahānāvika* (i.e. ‘the great sailor’) Buddhagupta of Raktamṛttikā which was a locality near modern Murshidabad in South-West Bengal.² The alphabet of these records is however the Late Brāhmī of West and South India assignable to the 5th or 6th century A.D.