Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages
Scripts, languages, inscription types, dating eras, history of decipherment and research, with a bibliography of epigraphic corpora.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Richard Salomon
- Extent
- 2,493 passages, 124,761 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Oxford University Press, New York 1998; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by… · In copyright (Richard Salomon); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that copy,…
Contents
- c1 Indian Epigraphy — 18 parts
- c2 Preface — 11 parts
- c3 Contents — 66 parts
- c4 Abbreviations — 3 parts
- c5 Note on Citation and Bibliographic Form — 3 parts
- c6 1 The Scope and Significance of Epigraphy in Indological Studies — 24 parts
- c7 2 Writing and Scripts in India — 6 parts
- c8 3 The Languages of Indic Inscriptions — 6 parts
- c9 4 Survey of Inscriptions in the Indo-Aryan Languages — 2 parts
- c10 5 Methods of Epigraphic Study — 4 parts
- c11 6 The History of Indian Epigraphic Studies — 37 parts
- c12 7 Epigraphy as a Source for the Study of Indian Culture — 6 parts
- c13 8 Bibliographic Survey — 2 parts
- c14 Appendix: Selection of Typical Inscriptions — 37 parts
- c15 Bibliography — 286 parts
- c16 Index of Inscriptions Cited — 327 parts
- c17 General Index — 47 parts