[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Indian Palaeography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963) › c13.8 # Indian Palaeography c13.8 Indian Palaeography c13.8 - **Language:** English ### [c13.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c13.8) In order to verify the actual working of this new approach the inscriptions have been classified by regions. Four main regions stand out clearly: (1) Eastern India with the old centre in Magadha, and the new foci—one, south of the Ganges at Kauśāmbī, the influence of which went south-west to Bharhut and eastwards to Bodhgaya as far down as Hathigumpha in Orissa, and the other, north of the Ganges at Ayodhya. (2) North-west India with its centres at Taxila, Mathura, and a number of places in the Malwa plateau on the route leading from the north to the Deccan. (3) North-west Deccan, which is a continuation of the culture from the Malwa plateau. (4) South India, with which has been included Eastern Deccan. Amaravati and its neighbourhood saw a farther southward progress of the culture from Western Deccan, and from this centre writing trickled into the barbarous hill-caves of the extreme south. Sanskrit or Prākrit speakers from the north, as is shown from the Sanskrit legend on a potsherd from Arikamedu,¹ brought northern technical advancement into the slow-moving backward region of the south. For each of these regions a different standard was to be established according as the new technique of writing was variously practised. - [Previous: c13.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c13.7) - [Next: c13.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c13.9) - [Up: c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c13.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c13.8) · Pramāṇa