Indian Palaeography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300
English version of Indische Paläographie: origin of the scripts, Kharoṣṭhī, Brāhmī and regional alphabets, numerals, eras, writing materials and scribes.
- Language
- English
- Authors
- G. Bühler, J. F. Fleet
- Extent
- 1,293 passages, 70,903 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · English tr. by J. F. Fleet, appendix to Indian Antiquary XXXIII, Bombay 1904; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (G. Bühler †1898; J. F. Fleet †1917); published before…
Contents
- c1 Indian Paleography — 11 parts
- c2 Introductory Note — 25 parts
- c3 Contents — 18 parts
- c4 List of Abbreviations — 1 part
- c5 Corrections and Remarks — 17 parts
- c6 I. The Antiquity of Writing in India and the Origin of the Oldest Indian Alphabet — 5 parts
- c7 II. The Kharoṣṭhī Script — 21 parts
- c8 V. The Southern Alphabets — 6 parts
- c9 VI. Numeral Notation — 3 parts
- c10 VII. The External Arrangement of Inscriptions and Manuscripts — 1 part
- c11 VIII. Writing Materials, Libraries, and Writers — 3 parts
- c12 Concluding Remarks — 4 parts