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Emperor Ashoka erected a number of pillars with his edicts in at least three regional Prakrit languages in Brahmi script,[1] all of which are quite similar to Pali. Historically, the first written record of the Pali canon is believed to have been composed in Sri Lanka, based on a prior oral tradition. According to the Mahavamsa (the chronicle of Sri Lanka), due to a major famine in the country Buddhist monks wrote down the Pali canon during the time of King Vattagamini in 100 BCE.[citation needed] Bilingual coins containing Pali written in the Kharosthi script and Greek writing were used by James Prinsep to decipher the Kharosthi abugida.[2] This script became particularly significant for the study of early Buddhism following the discovery of the Gandharan Buddhist texts.