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Gregory Schopen, On the Buddha and His Bones: The Conception of a Relic in the Inscriptions of Nāgarjunikoṇḍa, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 108, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1988), pp. 527-537
Gregory Schopen (Sat,) studied this question.