The History of Indian Literature c9.17

c9.17

¹⁹⁸ This name ought probably to be written *Kapardigiri*? See my paper on the Satruṃjaya Máhátmya, p. 118. In these inscriptions, moreover, we have a text, similar in purport, presented to us in three distinct dialects. See further on this subject Burnouf's admirable discussion of these inscriptions in his *Lotus de la bonne Loi*, p. 652, ff. (1852); *I. St.*, iii. 467, ff. (1855); and Kern, *De Gedenkstukken van Aśoka den Buddhist* (1873, particularly p. 32 ff., 45 ff.).