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Updated: May 20, 2025
These little oratories are often found near fountains, streams or tree-clumps where travellers would be likely to alight. Even the paws of the Sphinx are covered with such graffiti; and those of Ipsambul or Abu Simbal have proved treasures to epigraphists.
This is only to show you, my dear friend, that epigraphy is but a relative science, always dependent on the discovery of a new text which contradicts the previous findings, when it is not merely at the mercy of the humors of the epigraphists and their pet conceptions of the universe.
The last date of Achyuta known to epigraphists at present is found in an inscription bearing a date corresponding to January 25, A.D. 1541; and the earliest date similarly available of his successor, Sadasiva, is July 27, A.D. 1542. The Beginning of the End
I have always loved the art of the epigraphists, and I wanted to quote some examples, including an inscription for a sun-dial, an inscription for a memorial to Lord Halifax, the trimmer, the greatest of Whig statesmen, another to William Pitt, and an inscription to the Quakers who fought and died in the War, men whose noble combination of patriotism and self- abnegation impressed me profoundly.
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