Indian Palaeography
Region-by-region development of Brāhmī and its descendants, analysed letter by letter from dated records, with many script tables.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Ahmad Hasan Dani
- Extent
- 1,768 passages, 121,380 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Oxford: Clarendon 1963 (scan: Munshiram Manoharlal reprint 1997); scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash;… · In copyright (Ahmad Hasan Dani †2009); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 19 parts
- c2 Foreword — 6 parts
- c3 Preface to the Second Edition — 25 parts
- c4 Preface to the First Edition — 8 parts
- c5 Contents — 47 parts
- c6 List of Plates — 23 parts
- c7 Abbreviations — 1 part
- c8 1. Introduction — 42 parts
- c9 2. The Indus Script — 5 parts
- c10 Appendix to Chapter 2: The Indus Script and the Later Symbols — 10 parts
- c11 3. Origin of Brāhmī — 42 parts
- c12 4. Aśokan Brāhmī — 12 parts
- c13 5. The Provincial Brāhmī Scripts to the Middle of the First Century A.D. — 24 parts
- c14 6. Brāhmī Writing Styles Between the First and the Fourth Centuries A.D. — 39 parts
- c15 7. The Proto-Regional Scripts — 12 parts
- c16 8. Ceylon — 1 part
- c17 9. South-East Asia — 15 parts
- c18 10. The Kharoshṭhī Script — 5 parts
- c19 Appendix: Glossary of Terms — 323 parts
- c20 Index — 34 parts
- c21 Plates — 174 parts