Indian Epigraphy : a Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages.
This text surveys all the inscriptional material - documents written in ink on various surfaces, or carved into stone and metal, as well as seals - in the Indo-Aryan languages. It presents the corpus of these inscriptions in a way which should be accessible to both specialists and non-specialists.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998
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| Series: | South Asia research (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Note on Citation and Bibliographic Form; 1 The Scope and Significance of Epigraphy in Indological Studies; 2 Writing and Scripts in India; 3 The Languages of Indic Inscriptions; 4 Survey of Inscriptions in the Indo-Aryan Languages; 5 Methods of Epigraphic Study; 6 The History of Indian Epigraphic Studies; 7 Epigraphy as a Source for the Study of Indian Culture; 8 Bibliographic Survey; Appendix: Selection of Typical Inscriptions; Bibliography; Index of Inscriptions Cited; Index.
