 Given it is inscribed in stone and dated to 1st-century BCE, it also linked the religious thought in the post-Vedic centuries in late 1st millennium BCE with those found in the unreliable highly variant texts such as the Puranas dated to later half of the 1st millennium CE.The inscription is a reliable historical record, providing a name and floruit to the Satavahana dynasty.The Nanghat inscriptions have been important to the study of history of numerals.