Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c16.35

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Bīmarān (Laghman Province, Afghanistan) Kharoṣṭhī vase ins.: S. Konow, CII 2.1, 50–2. **153**, **216** Birkot-Ghundai (Swat Dist., NWFP, Pakistan) Greek potsherd ins.: P. Callieri, *Journal of Central Asia* 7, 1984, 49–53. **108** Bisapī (Darbhanga Dist., Bihar) [spurious?] copper plate, Lakṣmaṇasaṃvat 293 = A.D. 1400?: G. Grierson, IA 14, 1885, 190–1. **193n. 152** Bodh-Gayā (Gaya Dist., Bihar) Burmese ins., [Burmese] 660 = A.D. 1298: Taw Sein Ko, EI 11, 1911–12, 118–20. **109** Bodh-Gayā Chinese inss.: S. Beal, JRAS n.s. 13, 1881, 552–72. **109** Bodh-Gayā ins. of Mahānāman, [Gupta] 269 = A.D. 588/89: J. F. Fleet, CII 3, 274–8. **39** Bombay Royal Asiatic Society (findspot unknown) copper plate ins. of Cālukya Bhīmadeva [II], Siṃha 96 / Vikrama 1266 = A.D. 1209: J. F. Fleet, IA 18, 1889, 108–16. **192** Bombay-Sopārā (Thana Dist., Maharashtra) fragmentary rock edicts of Aśoka: CII 1, 118; D. C. Sircar, EI 32, 1957–58, 29–30 ≈ *Aśokan Studies*, 42–4. **74**, **136** Bōthpur (Mahbubnagar Dist., AP) Telugu and Sanskrit stone inss. of Malyāla Gūmḍa with *padma-bandha* and *citra-bandha*, Śaka 1194 = A.D. 1272 and Śaka 1181 = A.D. 1259: P. Sreenivasachar, *A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts*, part 2, 148–9, 157–61, 197 (nos. 51 and 52). **238n. 31** Brahmagiri (Chitradurga Dist., Karnataka) minor rock edicts of Aśoka: CII 1, 175–8. **136n. 67**, **138** British Museum (findspot unknown) crystal seal of Avarighsa: D. C. Sircar, EI 36, 1965–66, 275–84. **131** Brussels (findspot unknown) Kharoṣṭhī Buddha image ins., [Kaniṣka?] 5 = A.D. 82/83?: G. Fussman, BEFEO 61, 1974, 54–8. **143** Buckalā (Jodhpur Dist., Rajasthan) ins. of Pratīhāra Nāgabhaṭṭa, [Vikrama] 872 = A.D. 815: D. R. Bhandarkar, EI 9, 1907–8, 198–200. **62** Buddhagupta stone ins. (exact findspot unknown; from Pulau Pinang State [formerly Wellesley Province], Malaysia; now in Indian Museum, Calcutta): B. Ch. Chhabra, *Expansion of Indo-Aryan Culture*, 20–6 + pl. 3; SI I.497. **158** Buddhist monastery seals (findspots unknown) on crystal with Kharoṣṭhī inss.: R. B. Whitehead, *Numismatic Chronicle*, 6th ser., vol. 10, 1950, 230–1; K. L. Janert, “Studien zur indischen Schriftkunde und Religionsgeschichte: Zwei frühe indische Amulette,” in W. Voigt, ed., *Forschungen und Fortschritte der Katalogisierung der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland. Marburger Kolloquium 1965* (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1966), 23–62 (also published in K. L. Janert, R. Sellheim, and H. Striedl, *Schriften und Bilder. Drei orientalische Untersuchungen*, Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Supplementband 7 [Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1967], 1–40); important corrections by D. Schlingloff in his review of *Forschungen und Fortschritte …* in *Indogermanische Forschungen* 72, 1967, 315–20, and in JNSI 31, 1969, 69–70. **131** Burhānpūr (Nimar Dist., MP) mosque ins. of Ādil Shāh, [Vikrama] 1646 / Śaka 1511 = A.D. 1590: Hira Lal, EI 9, 1907–8, 306–10. **150**, **175n. 46**, **305–7**, **306f** Cambā (Chamba Dist., Himachal Pradesh) copper bell ins.: B. Ch. Chhabra, *Antiquities of Chamba State*, II.175–6. **129** Cāndpur (Lalitpur Dist., UP) boar ins., [Vikrama-]Saṃvat 1207 = A.D. 1151: A. Cunningham, ASIR 10, 1874–75 and 1876–77, 97; F. Kielhorn, IA 19, 354. **179** Candrāvatī (Sirohi Dist., Rajasthan) memorial stele, Vikrama 1240 = A.D. 1183: V. S. Srivastava, JOI 32, 1982, 76–81. **120** Cāṅgu-Nārāyaṇa (Kathmandu, Nepal) pillar ins. of Mānadeva, [Śaka (?)] 386 = A.D. 464/65 (?): R. Gnoli, *Nepalese Inscriptions in Gupta Characters*, I.1–5; SI I.378–82. **152**, **237**