Given below is a passage with five blanks (A-E). A phrase written in brackets is given against each blank. Choose the right word from the options which can replace the phrase most appropriately. If none of the options fit for the replacement, according to you, then select ‘None of these’ as your answer.

Dakhni inscriptions are rare, and the one at the Bijapur dargah is the oldest surviving inscription in the language. When Hakala went to visit an older specimen in Ahmedabad—dating back to the mid-sixteenth century—he learned, much to his dismay, that it had recently been lost to _______ (A) (lack of care). Dakhni is today commonly considered a regional _______ (B) (another form) of Urdu, and scholars often term its classical literary form qadīm—old—Urdu. While Urdu and Dakhni are linguistically distinct, they are seen as sharing a certain literary tradition and _______ (C) (collection of texts that are considered to be authoritative), effectively making this inscription—far from the traditional heartland of Urdu tahzīb, or cultural refinement, in the Gangetic plains—the oldest _______ (D) (still existing) Urdu inscription. Classical Dakhni emerged as a literary language with the _______ (E) (heroic or grand) poem “Kadam Rāo Padam Rāo,” written by the poet Fakhruddin Nizami in the late fifteenth century at Bidar—the capital of the Bahmani Sultanate—as well as in the verses of numerous local Sufis.