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# 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](https://indike.org/pramana/person/buhler-g), [J. F. Fleet](https://indike.org/pramana/person/fleet-jf)
- **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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1904.c1) — 11 parts
- [c2 Introductory Note](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1904.c2) — 25 parts
- [c3 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1904.c3) — 18 parts
- [c4 List of Abbreviations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1904.c4) — 1 part
- [c5 Corrections and Remarks](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1904.c5) — 17 parts
- [c6 I. The Antiquity of Writing in India and the Origin of the Oldest Indian Alphabet](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1904.c6) — 5 parts
- [c7 II. The Kharoṣṭhī Script](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1904.c7) — 21 parts
- [c8 V. The Southern Alphabets](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1904.c8) — 6 parts
- [c9 VI. Numeral Notation](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1904.c9) — 3 parts
- [c10 VII. The External Arrangement of Inscriptions and Manuscripts](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1904.c10) — 1 part
- [c11 VIII. Writing Materials, Libraries, and Writers](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1904.c11) — 3 parts
- [c12 Concluding Remarks](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.buhler-1904.c12) — 4 parts

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