Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c17.23

c17.23

Latin inscriptions, 108 Lauṛiyā-Ararāj, 205 law, 4, 165, 251 documents, 123–24, 131 terminology, 164, 249 Law, Bimala Churn, 241 leather (as inscriptional material), 159 legal documents, 123–24, 131 legal principles, 4 legal terminology, 164, 249 *lekhaka* (scribe), 65 *Lekhapaddhati*, 95n.57 Lenormant, François, 23 Lévi, Sylvain, 50–51, 86, 151 lexicography, 249 Licchavi era, 191 Licchavi period, 152 lineation, 42 linguistics, 248–50 *lipikāra* (scribe), 65 *lipikāreṇa*, 44, 46, 136n.67 *Lipiśālāsaṃdarśana* (in *Lalitavistara*), 8 *List of Brahmi Inscriptions from the Earliest Times to About A.D. 400* (Lüders), 260 *List of Inscriptions of Southern India from About A.D. 500* (Kielhorn), 259–60 “List of Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions, A” (Majumdar), 260 *List of the Inscriptions of Northern India from About A.D. 400* (Kielhorn), 221, 259 *List of the Inscriptions of Northern India in Brahmi and Its Derivative Scripts, from About 200 A.C., A* (Bhandarkar), 260 literature, 233–38, 255 inscription preserving specimens of works, 234–35, 236–37 inscriptions as chronological/dating framework, 233–34, 235 literary inscriptions, 123, 126, 156–57, 234–35, 235–38 standard genres, 236–37 *See also praśasti* logographic script type, 15 Lohuizen-de Leeuw, J. E., 245, 246 Lokāyatas, 244 Lorenzen, David N., 240