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Which one of the following most accurately describes the linguistic-script pattern of Ashokan inscriptions?
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- 1They were written only in Brahmi and Kharosthi, with no foreign-language versions.
- 2They were chiefly in Sanskrit, with isolated Prakrit versions in frontier regions.
- 3They were predominantly in Prakrit, mostly inscribed in Brahmi, with Kharosthi used in parts of the north-west and a few inscriptions in Greek or Aramaic.✓
- 4They were composed exclusively in Prakrit and written uniformly in Brahmi throughout the empire.
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They were predominantly in Prakrit, mostly inscribed in Brahmi, with Kharosthi used in parts of the north-west and a few inscriptions in Greek or Aramaic.
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