Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c17.1

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Abhijñāna-śākuntala (Kālidāsa), 234 Ābhīras, 183n.83, 185 *ācāras* (customary laws), 240, 251 Achaemenian empire, 13, 28, 46, 52, 210n.66 acute-angled script. *See* Siddhamātṛkā "Additions to Bactrian Numismatics, and Discovery of the Bactrian Alphabet" (Prinsep), 211 additive/multiplicative system of numerical notation, 56–57, 61n.193, 63–64, 217 *adhika-māsa* (intercalary month), 178 *adhika-tithi* (intercalary day), 178 Ādil Shāhīs [Ādil Shāh/Ādil Shāhīs], 100 administrative documents, 123, 124, 159–60, 231–32 Adzhina Tepe, 153 Afghanistan, 142, 152–53 Greek and Aramaic inscriptions, 107, 108 Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions, 44, 45, 78, 211 pottery inscriptions, 131 undeciphered script, 71 Africa, 5 Agathocles (Indo-Greek king), 206 Agra inscription, 144 Agrawal, Jagannath, 261 Agrawal, V. S., 250 agriculture, 232 Āguptāyika era, 194 Ahom, 108 Ahom kings, 104, 108 Airikiṇa (Eraṇ), 250 Ajaṇṭā, 246 Ajayapaladeva (Cāhamāna king), 120 Ājīvikas, 138, 140, 243–44 *ājñā*/*ājñapti*, 117 Akbar (Mughal emperor), 195, 243 *ākhyāyikā*, 236 *akṣara*, 15, 16n.34, 46n.132, 163, 212n.72 Alam Bridge, 143 *alaṃkāras*, 238 Al-Bīrūnī, 39n.111, 184, 186, 188 Alexander the Great, 22 Allchin, F. R., 133 alphabetic script type, 15 alphabetic syllabary, 20 alphabets. *See specific languages and scripts* Alsdorf, Ludwig, 133 altered plates. *See* spurious inscriptions *amānta* months, 177, 182, 184, 186–87, 188, 191, 193 Amareśvara temple, 237 Amlī era, 195 Amoghavarṣa (Rāṣṭrakūṭa king), 148 Amṛta (sculptor), 247 Aṃśuvarman (king of Nepal), 191 Aṃtalikita (king). *See* Antialkidas Ānandacandra (king of Arakan), 154 Anantavarman (Eastern Gaṅga king), 62, 187