Dear Birgit, I have an off-print of this article, kindly sent by Ashok himself some years ago. If you have not managed to get it as yet, I am ready to send you a copy right now. Sincerely yours, Raffaele Prof. Raffaele Torella Chair of Sanskrit Dipartimento di Studi Orientali Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza' fax 0039 06 4451209