Dr Dorpfeld has argued, on architectural grounds, that shrine and images alike must be given to a later time than the 4th century; and this judgment is now confirmed by inscriptional and other evidence.
And they and their successors have left us so great a wealth of inscriptional records that no further detailed account can be attempted within the limits available here.
The inscriptional records for that period belong chiefly to Southern India.
We can, of course, mention in this account only the most prominent of the inscriptional records.
We have inscriptional records of these two persons, not only from Kura in the Salt Range, not very far from Sialkot, but also from Eran and from Gwalior.
From that time onwards, as far as our present knowledge goes, Sanskrit, with a very rare introduction of Prakrit or vernacular forms, was practically the only inscriptional language in the northern parts of India.
The mixed dialect appears to have been the general one for inscriptional purposes in Northern India until about A.
The great classical Indian language, Sanskrit, is not found in any inscriptional records of the earliest times.
With the exception, however, of that record and of the few which are mentioned just below, the inscriptional language of Southern India appears to have been generally Prakrit of one kind or another until about A.
Inscriptional evidence is not forthcoming in either place sufficient to warrant any certainty in the matter of correspondence of local names to those in Praeneste.
From the first the elegiac metre was instinctively recognised as one of the best suited forinscriptional poems.
This subject is all the more interesting, as the cuneiform element appears to have passed from the Greek inscriptional letters into those of the Romans, and from thence into our own capital letters.
But it is fortunately the case that the samvatsaras have been but rarely cited in the inscriptional records without such a guide, of some kind or another.
Modern research, however, based largely on the inscriptional records, has shown that there was no such king, and that the real facts are very different.
No inscriptional use of this cycle has come to notice.
That the Saka era, though it had its origin in the south-west corner of Northern India, is essentially an era of Southern India, is proved by its inscriptional and numismatic history.
And the only known inscriptional instances of the use of it are modern ones, of the 19th century.
Inscriptional instances of the use of this cycle are found in six of the Gupta records of Northern India, ranging from A.
But, setting that aside, the earliest inscriptional instance of the use of this era in Northern India, outside Kathiawar and Gujarat, is found in a record of A.
Inscriptional instances of the use of this cycle are perhaps found in two records of Southern India of the Kadamba series, belonging to about A.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inscriptional" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
