History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c16.s3.96

c16.s3.96

This argument is not convincing, but is a mere expression of possibility. It seems more plausible if we adopt Jayaswal’s date, and place Khāravela in the first half of the second century B.C.¹ But few recent authorities would admit that he reigned so early; the latter half of the first century B.C. is the date now usually favoured for the Khāravela inscription, which must thus have been inscribed a century or more after those of Daśaratha.² The Lomas Ṛṣi façade seems to be either Mauryan or immediately post-Mauryan—the very primitive imitation of woodwork in the design,³ and the early form of the crocodile-like creatures to the right and left of the frieze,⁴ point to an early date for its construction.