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# Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. (Indische Paläographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr.)

Systematic history of Kharoṣṭhī and Brāhmī and their derivatives, letter by letter and period by period, with numerals, writing materials, and 17 tables of script charts.

- **Language:** German
- **Author:** [G. Bühler](https://indike.org/pramana/person/buhler-g)
- **Extent:** 2,980 passages, 255,099 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · Strassburg: Trübner 1896 (Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie I.11), with 17 plates; scan on archive.org,… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (G. Bühler †1898); published before 1931: public domain…

## Contents

- [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c1) — 2 parts
- [c2 Indische Palaeographie von circa 350 a. Chr. — circa 1300 p. Chr.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c2) — 4 parts
- [c3 Inhaltsverzeichnis.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c3) — 24 parts
- [c4 I. Das Alter der indischen Schrift und der Ursprung des ältesten indischen Alphabets](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c4) — 3 parts
- [c5 II. Die Kharoṣṭhī-Schrift](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c5) — 6 parts
- [c6 III. Die alte Brāhmī und Drāviḍī von ca. 350 a. Chr. bis ca. 350 p. Chr.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c6) — 6 parts
- [c7 IV. Die nördlichen Alphabete von ca. 350 p. Chr.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c7) — 4 parts
- [c8 V. Die südlichen Alphabete](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c8) — 3 parts
- [c9 VI. Die Zahlenbezeichnung](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c9) — 3 parts
- [c10 VII. Äussere Einrichtung der Inschriften und MSS.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c10) — 72 parts
- [c11 VIII. Schreibmaterialien, Bibliotheken, Schreiber](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c11) — 38 parts
- [c12 Schlussbemerkung](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c12) — 2 parts
- [c13 Abkürzungen](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c13) — 3 parts
- [c14 Indian Coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c14) — 7 parts
- [c15 Sources of Indian History: Coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c15) — 2 parts
- [c16 I. Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c16) — 10 parts
- [c17 II. Earliest Native Coinage](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c17) — 1 part
- [c18 III. Early Foreign Coins in India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c18) — 17 parts
- [c19 IV. Graeco-Indian Coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c19) — 20 parts
- [c20 V. Scythic Invaders of India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c20) — 31 parts
- [c21 VI. Coins of Native Indian States from the Earliest Times to c. 50 A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c21) — 41 parts
- [c22 VII. Indo-Parthian Coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c22) — 8 parts
- [c23 VIII. Kuṣana Coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c23) — 32 parts
- [c24 IX. Dynasties Contemporary with the Kuṣaṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c24) — 13 parts
- [c25 X. The Guptas and their Contemporaries](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c25) — 27 parts
- [c26 XI. Later Coins of N., E., C. and W. India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c26) — 21 parts
- [c27 XII. Coinages of Southern India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c27) — 41 parts
- [c28 List of Abbreviations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c28) — 1 part
- [c29 Table of Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c29) — 2 parts
- [c30 Key to Plates of Coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c30) — 6 parts
- [c31 Medicin](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c31) — 2 parts
- [c32 I. Zur Quellenkunde](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c32) — 22 parts
- [c33 II. Die Ärzte und die Therapie](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c33) — 26 parts
- [c34 III. Theoretische Anschauungen](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c34) — 6 parts
- [c35 IV. Entwickelungslehre und Gynäkologie](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c35) — 4 parts
- [c36 V. Die inneren Krankheiten und ihre Behandlung](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c36) — 10 parts
- [c37 VI. Äussere Krankheiten](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c37) — 6 parts
- [c38 VII. Krankheiten des Kopfes](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c38) — 22 parts
- [c39 VIII. Nerven- und Geisteskrankheiten. Toxikologie](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c39) — 13 parts
- [c40 Nachträge und Verbesserungen](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c40) — 4 parts
- [c41 Abkürzungen](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c41) — 2 parts
- [c42 I. Wortverzeichnis](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c42) — 48 parts
- [c43 II. Sachverzeichnis](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c43) — 30 parts
- [c44 Inhalt](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c44) — 15 parts
- [c45 Ethnography (Castes and Tribes)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c45) — 2 parts
- [c46 Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c46) — 25 parts
- [c47 Social Organisation](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c47) — 2 parts
- [c48 Castes and Caste-Groups](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c48) — 7 parts
- [c49 Appendix A. Summary of Caste-Groups](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c49) — 77 parts
- [c50 Appendix B. Caste Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c50) — 27 parts
- [c51 Appendix, Table II. Religions per 10,000 of population of each division](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c51) — 2 parts
- [c52 Appendix, Table III](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c52) — 3 parts
- [c53 A List of the more important works on Indian Ethnography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c53) — 624 parts
- [c54 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c54) — 1 part
- [c55 Corrections](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1896.c55) — 3 parts

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