Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c17.11

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Gāhaḍavālas, 149, 166 Gai, G. S., 223, 255, 257, 261 Gandhāra, 44, 45 Gāndhāran sculpture, 143, 246 Gāndhārī, 44, 46, 47, 48, 50n.147, 52, 78, 142–43 Aśokan inscriptions, 74–75, 136 Central Asia, 79, 153, 154, 159 dialects, 77–79, 215 “Gāndhārī écrite, Gāndhārī parlée” (Fussman), 260 Gaṇeśa, 153 Gāṅga (Gāṅgeya) era, 187–88 Gaṅgādhara (poet), 234 Gaṅgas, 62 Gaṛhwāl, 103 Garrick, H. R. W., 218 Garuḍa (deity), 68, 111 *garuḍa-dhvaja*, 141 *gata* (expired) years, 176 Gauḍī (Proto-Bengali) script, 41, 101 Gaur, A., 113 Gaurīśvara-stotra, 237 Gautamīputra Sātakarṇi (king), 144, 183n.79 Gautamīputra Śrī-Yajña Sātakarṇi, 90n.51 Geiger, Wilhelm, 79, 104 genealogy, 226, 227–28 dynastic seal inscriptions, 124 geographical data, 228–31, 249–50 *Geography in Ancient Indian Inscriptions* (Gupta), 260 *ghaṭikās* (hours), 175 Ghaṭotkaca (Gupta king), 186 Ghaznī, 153 Gilgit, 122, 143 Girikaṇḍi-caitya, 151 *Gītagovinda* (Jayadeva), 234, 235 glass (as inscriptional material), 130 Gnoli, R., 151 Goa, 108, 180 gold (as inscriptional material), 123, 130, 143, 154, 158 Gona, 119 Gonda, Jan, 255 Gondophernes (Indo-Parthian king), 143, 173, 214 Goonetileke, H. A. I., 151 Gopalan, S., 100, 195 Goparāja, 119–20 Govindacandra (Candra king), 239 Goyal, S. P., 13, 228 graffiti Hebrew, 107–8 Kharoṣṭhī, 44 prehistoric, 10 Sīgiri, 151 grammatical inscriptions, 126–27 Grantha script, 40, 41, 42 inscription from Burma in, 155 grants. *See* copper plate charters Greek alphabet, 9, 16n.33, 22, 29, 136 Aśokan inscriptions, 152–53 Brāhmī linked with, 22, 23 coin legends, 45, 47, 108, 209–13 loanwords, 78, 79 Greek historians, 11 Greek kings, 210, 227 Greeks, 46, 240 Greek script, 22, 28 Bactrian, 210, 211 Grotefend, C. L., 210, 211, 214 Grotefend, G. F., 210, 210n.66 Guhilas, 149 Gujarat, 82, 93, 101, 144, 146, 183, 216, 230, 256 Cālukyas of, 147, 149, 184, 193, 195 Gujarati, 41n.115, 101–2 Gupta, Parmanand, 260 Gupta era, 90n.50, 188, 191 dating system, 169, 172–73, 174n.34, 175, 197 founder of, 168 historical origins, 186–87 precise epoch, 186–87 Guptas, 3, 38–39, 186, 197, 219 calligraphic scripts, 69–70 decipherment of inscriptions, 204, 205, 219 genealogical dating, 228 inscriptions, 145–46 *kāvya* style, 233 post-Gupta inscriptions, 146–48 punctuation use, 66 Sanskrit, adoption of, 84, 92–93, 94 Sanskrit copper plate charters, 115 sculpture, dating of, 244 seal inscriptions, 124 *See also* Gupta era; Gupta-Valabhī era Gupta script (late Brāhmī), 19, 37, 38–41 Gupta-Valabhī era, 186–87 Gurjara-Pratīhāras, 147, 148, 172, 184, 227, 228, 230, 233–34 Gurmukhī script, 41 *Gvālīyara Rājya ke Abhilekha* (Dvivedī), 260 Gwalior, 102, 125, 230