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Art. XVIII.—Notes on a Bactrian Pali Inscription and the Samvat Era.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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In Trübners Record of June, 1871, I gave a notice of a short Inscription, of which a rubbing was brought from Takht-i-Bahi by Dr. Leitner. The rubbing showed the Inscription to be in a very defective state, and, according to General Cunningham, the original stone has been used for grinding spices on. A photograph of it has since been obtained, from which the accompanying plate has been copied. Many of the letters are indistinct, but the photograph would seem to indicate that the blank space in the middle was blank from the first. The stone is now in the Lahore Museum. I quote what I said in the Record.
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page 377 note 1 Reproduced in the Indian Antiquary of August, 1873, p. 242.
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