Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c11.s3.1

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Despite the continued support by governmental and educational institutions in South Asia, it cannot be said that all is well with the study of epigraphy in India nowadays. The general decline in standards and interest in Sanskrit and Sanskritic studies in India is having a deleterious effect on the quality, if not the quantity, of some epigraphic work (see EINES 92), though it is encouraging that, as noted previously, some excellent publications are still appearing. Outside South Asia there have been some signs of a revival of interest in epigraphy in Europe and North America, where the work of such scholars as Harry Falk, Gérard Fussman, Oskar von Hinüber, and Gregory Schopen has stimulated new interest in this field.