Back in the city, young Bhagvanlal felt intrigued by the edicts whenever he visited the place with his father, who had taught him Sanskrit. The rock had edicts of Ashoka, Rudradaman I, and Skandgupta inscribed separately. Bhagvanlal tried to decipher Rudradaman I’s edicts in Sanskrit using Prinsep’s copy as a reference but could not decode the text.
Then he decided to secure the old journals of various Asiatic Societies from a friend despite his lack of prowess in the English language….
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Gujarati archaeologist Bhagvanlal with little English, lot of Sanskrit helped British read edicts
