Bajaur casket
| Bajaur casket | |
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 The Bajaur casket, Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1] | |
| Created | 1st century CE |
| Discovered | Bajaur |
  Bajaur | |
The Bajaur casket, also called the Indravarma reliquary, year 63,[2] or sometimes referred to as the Avaca inscription,[3] is an ancient reliquary from the area of Bajaur in ancient Gandhara, in the present-day Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. It is dated to around 5-6 CE.[4] It proves the involvement of the Scythian kings of the Apraca, in particular King Indravarman, in Buddhism. The casket is made of schist.
The inscription which is written in Kharoshthi:
| Inscription | Original (Kharosthi script) | Transliteration | English translation |
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| Line 1 |
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