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Inscriptions are seen on rocks, pillars, stones, slabs, walls of buildings, and body of temples. Some convey monarchical orders regarding administrative, religious and major decisions to the public in general. Others are records of the followers of major religions. The most famous inscriptions are of Ashoka.

The Halmidi inscription is the oldest known Kannada language inscription in the Kannada script usually dated to 450 AD. It is the earliest evidence of the usage of Kannada as an administrative language. Halmidi is a small village in the Hassan district of Karnataka state.

Historians resort to oral descriptions to narrate the lives of ordinary people. The history created by such oral descriptions is called Oral History. 

 Edicts of Ashoka are the earliest deciphered epigraphic inscriptions made in the 3rd century BCE. They are written in forms of Prakrit in the Brahmi script. The inscriptions and edicts of Asoka refer to a collection of 33 inscriptions on the Pillars of Asoka, as well as boulders and cave walls. They are spread over modern-day Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Numismatics is the study of the evolution, nature and development of coins. Coins provide information for trade, economy, social organisation, mythology, ideologies, etc. Numismatics also include the broader study of money and other payment media used to resolve debts and the exchange of goods

The Halmidi inscription was written during the reign of King Kakutsavarma.

The earliest deciphered epigraphic inscriptions are the Edicts of Ashoka of the 3rd century BCE, written in forms of Prakrit in the Brahmi script. The inscriptions and edicts of Asoka refer to a collection of 33 inscriptions on the Pillars of Asoka, as well as boulders and cave walls. They are spread over modern-day Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

After the Indian independence, the events, descriptions and writings of Indians paved way for a new history. Amidst all these, as historians all over the world believed, Indians too believed that supplementary evidence was necessary. Even today it is widely accepted that without documentary evidence and proofs, history cannot be blindly accepted. 

1. In the recent decades, historians have started debating about the ways to write the history of the common people which does not have documentary evidence.