“A thousand-year-old “Prashasti” inscription sheds light on the Ramayana”, India Currents, February 9, 2025:

“When Rudra Vikram Srivastava stumbled onto this 11th-century inscription while exploring Garhwa Fort in Prayagraj, (UP, India), he instinctively knew he had found something significant.  His discovery on December 18, 2024 carried immense historical weight, marking a noteworthy moment in our understanding of bharatiya history.

Srivastava is an independent researcher with a special interest in medieval forts. Since 2022, he has studied epigraphical records from medieval forts in the broader Bundelkhand region, which covers parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Srivastava has regularly visited the Garhwa Fort site to document several other inscriptions; his research is in the process of being published.

Archaeologists Rajesh Kannaujia and Pritam Kumar and scholars like Kushagra Aniket, helped Srivastava decipher the inscription. Kannaujia is affiliated with the Archeological Survey of India (ASI); Kumar is a research scholar at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Uttar Pradesh, Bharat; and Aniket is a Cornell and Columbia University alumnus. He is an economist and a Sanskrit scholar associate with INDICA Classical Library……”

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