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  • Additional historical note/explanation on Kroraina.


    "Early travelers also left messages and graffiti in two Indic scripts: one thousand in Kharoshthi, the script used at Niya, and four thousand in Brahmi, which replaced Kharoshthi throughout central Asia around 400 CE. The use of Kharoshthi script indicates that many of the travelers came from Gandhara. Since the fourth century BCE, when Alexander of Macedon conquered the Gandhara region, it was home to a cosmopolitan population with roots in Greece, India, and East Asia."
    --Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 30

    December 30, 2016