Ancient History of the Deccan c3.s4.47

c3.s4.47

(c) Palæography shows that the alphabet of the inscriptions of Nahapâna is more archaic than that of Soḍāsa and much more archaic than that of Rudradâman. To say that the inscriptions of Nahapâna are almost contemporaneous with those of Rudradâman and that there was only a five years' interval between the reigns of these two kings is to introduce a monstrous anachronism into the palæography of these inscriptions;