The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age c7.4

c7.4

Other misreadings of *ś* and *y* occur, namely—*Ayoda* for *Aśoka* in *lMt* 1, where the second misreading of *k* as *d* might have arisen later in the Gupta script 2; *Māgadhéso* in *jMt* 3 where the more general readings are *Māgadhā ye*, *Māgadho yo* or *Māgadheya*; *Koyāla* in cgVṣ 4 for *Kośala*, where *yā* might easily be read for *śa* because Kharoṣṭhī often did not distinguish between long and short vowels; and *Śalīyūka* in eVā for *Śalīsūka* 5; *Mauryā dayo daśa* in *lVṣ* 6, where *daśa* was probably first misread and written as *daya*, which was afterwards amended so as to read *Maury-ādayo* incorrectly.