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¹ Bühler also observes (ASWI., Vol. V, 65) that the characters of the Nānāghāṭ inscriptions belong to a period anterior by about 100 years to that of the edicts of Gautamīputra Sātakarṇi and his son Pulumāyi. Scholars who place the Nānāghāṭ record in the first half of the second century B.C., and the epigraphs of the time of Gautamīputra Sātakarṇi in the second century A.D., will have to account for the paucity of Sātavāhana records during a period of about three hundred years (if that be the actual length of the interval between the age of the husband of Nāganikā and the reign of the son of Balaśrī). Mr. N. G. Majumdar (*The Monuments of Sāñchī* Vol. I, pt. iv, p. 277) places the Nānāghāṭ record during the period 100-75 B.C.