Indian Epigraphy c17.8

c17.8

Although sometimes stone pillars were also used for engraving grants of land, etc., it was difficult to forge such documents in secret. Moreover, records of this type were expected to be set up near the gift land or in the compound of temples when the land, etc., were granted in favour of gods.¹ Forgery of stone inscriptions was therefore unusual. A few specimens of spurious lithic records are however known, though these were forged for a different purpose.