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===Examples=== <gallery widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4"> File:Coinage of Chastana with obverse Brahmi legend.jpg|Early/Middle Brahmi legend on the coinage of [[Chastana]]: RAJNO MAHAKSHATRAPASA GHSAMOTIKAPUTRASA CHASHTANASA "Of the Rajah, the Great Satrap, son of Ghsamotika, Chashtana". 1st–2nd century CE.<ref>{{cite book |title=Seaby's Coin and Medal Bulletin: July 1980 |date=1980 |publisher=Seaby Publications Ltd. |page=219 |url=https://archive.org/details/seabyscoinmedalb1980base_r0l5/page/218}}</ref> File:Shastana inscription.jpg|Inscribed [[Kushan Empire|Kushan]] statue of [[Western Satraps]] King [[Chastana]], with inscription "Shastana" in Middle Brahmi script of the Kushan period ([[File:Gupta ashoka ss.svg|10px]]<sub>[[File:Gupta ashoka sta.jpg|13px]]</sub>[[File:Gupta ashoka n.svg|10px]] ''Ṣa-sta-na'').<ref name="JBO">"The three letters give us a complete name, which I read as Ṣastana (vide facsimile and cast). Dr. Vogel read it as Mastana but that is incorrect for Ma was always written with a circular or triangular knob below with two slanting lines joining the knob" in {{cite book |title=Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society |date=1920 |publisher=The Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yKZEAQAAMAAJ |language=en |access-date=2019-08-20 |archive-date=2020-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227171742/https://books.google.com/books?id=yKZEAQAAMAAJ |url-status=live}}</ref><br />Here, ''sta'' [[File:Gupta ashoka sta.jpg|13px]] is the [[conjunct consonant]] of ''sa'' [[File:Gupta ashoka s.svg|10px]] and ''ta'' [[File:Gupta ashoka t.svg|10px]], vertically combined. Circa 100 CE. File:Mahakhatapa.jpg|The rulers of the [[Western Satraps]] were called ''Mahākhatapa'' ("Great Satrap") in their Brahmi script inscriptions, as here in a dedicatory inscription by Prime Minister Ayama in the name of his ruler [[Nahapana]], [[Manmodi Caves]], {{circa|100 CE}}.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Burgess|first1=Jas|title=Archaeological Survey Of Western India|date=1883|page=103|url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.35775}}</ref> File:Nasik Cave inscription No 10.jpg|[[Nasik Caves|Nasik Cave]] inscription No.10. of [[Nahapana]], Cave No.10. </gallery>
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