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# 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](https://indike.org/pramana/person/dani-ah)
- **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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c1) — 19 parts
- [c2 Foreword](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c2) — 6 parts
- [c3 Preface to the Second Edition](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c3) — 25 parts
- [c4 Preface to the First Edition](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c4) — 8 parts
- [c5 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c5) — 47 parts
- [c6 List of Plates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c6) — 23 parts
- [c7 Abbreviations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c7) — 1 part
- [c8 1. Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c8) — 42 parts
- [c9 2. The Indus Script](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c9) — 5 parts
- [c10 Appendix to Chapter 2: The Indus Script and the Later Symbols](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c10) — 10 parts
- [c11 3. Origin of Brāhmī](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c11) — 42 parts
- [c12 4. Aśokan Brāhmī](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c12) — 12 parts
- [c13 5. The Provincial Brāhmī Scripts to the Middle of the First Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c13) — 24 parts
- [c14 6. Brāhmī Writing Styles Between the First and the Fourth Centuries A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c14) — 39 parts
- [c15 7. The Proto-Regional Scripts](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c15) — 12 parts
- [c16 8. Ceylon](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c16) — 1 part
- [c17 9. South-East Asia](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c17) — 15 parts
- [c18 10. The Kharoshṭhī Script](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c18) — 5 parts
- [c19 Appendix: Glossary of Terms](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c19) — 323 parts
- [c20 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c20) — 34 parts
- [c21 Plates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.dani-1963.c21) — 174 parts

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