Darius speaks in Sanskrit (2)

A few months back, I tried my hand at translating a modest amount of Old Persian (henceforth: OP) from the Achaemenid royal corpus into Classical Sanskrit (henceforth: Skt). This test-run of ours was on the Naqsh-e-Rostam inscription of Emperor Darius. It served to illustrate (rather convincingly) how close OP and Skt are. Chronologically speaking, the …