Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c11.s2.21

c11.s2.21

While the publications discussed here tended to concentrate mainly on northern Indian and Sanskritic materials (although southern and Dravidian materials were also included in EI from the beginning, and were to become more prominent in years to come), equally momentous developments were taking place in the same period in the field of southern Indian epigraphy. In 1879 [B.] Lewis Rice published *Mysore Inscriptions*, containing translations of 175 inscriptions, and in 1886 the first volume of *Epigraphia Carnatica* (EC), while in 1890 vol. 1 of South Indian Inscriptions (SII) appeared under Hultzsch's editorship. The two latter publications were to constitute, in effect, southern Indian counterparts to the northern-oriented CII and would ultimately far outstrip the latter in the amount of material published.