Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c17.20

c17.20

Kaniṣka (Kuṣāṇa king), 88, 143, 144, 174, 228, 246 portrait statue, 84, 121 as Śaka era founder, 183 Kannada, 105, 106, 148, 216 bilingual inscriptions, 100, 148, 149 Cālukya-Vikrama era inscriptions, 191 hunting exploits mentioned in inscriptions, 125n.39 trilingual inscriptions, 109 Kannada script, 41, 100 Kāntideva (king of Harikela), 117–18 Kāpālikas, 240 Kapilavastu, 250 *karaṇa* (half-tithi), 175 *karaṇa*/*karaṇika* (scribe), 65 *karaṇas* (dance poses), 248 Karas, 148 Karashima, Noboru, 231, 232, 259 Kara Tepe, 153 Kārdamakas, 144 Karkkarāja I (Rāṣṭrakūṭa king), 115, 148 Karkkarāja II (Rāṣṭrakūṭa king), 147 Kārle, 144 cave temple dating, 245 Karnataka, 230, 244 architecture, 247 Aśokan inscriptions, 44, 222 Cālukya-Vikrama era, 191–92 coin-types, references to in inscriptions, 251 copper plates, 146 forged inscriptions, 166 Marathi inscriptions, 100 memorial stone inscriptions, 120 *Kārttikādi* years, 177, 182, 185, 186–87, 191, 197 Kashgar, 50–51 Kashmir, 256 era dating, 196 historical tradition, 4 Śāradā script, 40 Kasiā, 247 Kāśīputra Bhāgabhadra (Śuṅga king), 141 Katapayādi numbering system, 173n.32 Kathiawar, 101, 144, 192, 193, 256 Kathika era, 90n.50, 194–95 Katti, Madhav N., 224 Kauśāmbī style, 37, 38 *kāvya* (poetry), 147, 164, 233, 235, 236–37 *kāyastha*. *See* scribe Kaye, G. R., 62n.199 Kāyethī script, 41n.115 Kedah, 158 Kerala, 189–90 Kern, Henrik, 222 Kesanapalli (excavations at), 145 Khaḍgas, 149 *khaṇḍa-kāvya*, 123, 237 Khandalavala, Karl, 245 Kharaosta (king), 51 Kharaposta, 51 Kharatara-gaccha, 243 Khāravela (Mahāmeghavāhana king), 67, 77, 111, 142, 164 *Kharoshṭhī Inscriptions with the Exception of Those of Aśoka* (Konow), 222, 260 Kharoṣṭhī, 9, 42–56 administrative documents, 124 Aśokan inscriptions, 64, 74–75, 136 biscripts, 70–71, 215 Brāhmī connections with, 22, 23, 48, 49, 54, 55, 56 central Asian, 44, 45–46, 55, 132, 153, 154 central Asian documents, 47–48, 51, 56, 58, 64, 79, 125, 130, 160 character derivations, 52 characteristics, 14–16, 17, 48–49, 55, 215 China, 159–60 chronological range, 46–47 coin legends, 45, 47, 48 consonantal conjuncts, 43, 48–49, 52–53, 54 dating of, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 46–47, 55, 181 decipherment, 209–15, 215–16, 218 decline of, 47 direction of writing, 48–49, 52 forgeries, 165, 166 Gāndhārī inscriptions, 78, 79, 249 geographical range, 42, 44–46 gold plate and silver inscriptions, 130 inscriptional materials, 131 inscriptions of Indo-Greek/Indo-Scythian era, 142–43 limited calligraphic development, 69n.221 map, 45 name of script, 50–51 numerical notation, 58, 59, 63–64, 218 origin, 28, 46, 51–54 paleography, 48–49, 55–56, 64 punctuation, 67 relic dedications, 66 Semitic scripts, comparison with, 25t study of, 218, 222, 249 uses of, 47–48 Kharoṣṭī. *See* Kharoṣṭhī Khmer, 155, 156 Khmer empire, 155, 158 Khotan, 45, 78n.23 Kielhorn, Franz, 89, 95, 147, 173, 179, 182, 185, 189–90, 191, 192, 193, 196, 217, 219, 220, 221, 259, 260 *List of the Inscriptions of Northern Indian from About A.D. 400*, 221, 259 *List of Inscriptions of Southern India from About A.D. 500*, 259–60 *Kirātārjunīya*, 234–35 Kirgizstan, 154 *Kīrtikaumudī* (Someśvaradeva), 234 *kīrtistambha*, 111 Kīrttivarman II (Cālukya king), 71 Kittoe, M., 215 *Kleine Schriften* (Kielhorn and Lüders), 260 Kokāsa, 247 Kollam (Quilon), 190 Kollam era, 189–90 Konākamana Buddha, 140 Konkan, 100 Konow, Sten, 44, 47, 77, 78n.24, 142, 166, 181, 260 Government Epigraphist for India, 222 Kopp, Ulrich Friedrich, 24 Kosambī (Kauśāmbī), 92, 138n.73, 139 Krishnan, K. G., 150, 255 Kroraina, 45, 79, 160 Krorainic, 79 Kṛṣṇa I (Rāṣṭrakūṭa king), 148 Kṛta era, 182 (*see also* Vikrama era) Kṣatrapas, 45, 57, 58, 82, 94, 143 donative cave inscriptions, 114, 144 Sanskrit inscriptions, 88–90, 93 *kṣatriyas*, 114 *kṣaya-māsa* (expunged month), 178 *kṣaya-tithi* (expunged lunar day), 178 Kṣemaṅkaradeva (Bhauma-Kara king), 190 Kubja (inscriptional poet), 236