Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c17.27

c17.27

Nāgārjunakoṇḍa, 38, 65n.208, 69, 77, 82, 90–91, 93, 94, 144 excavations at, 224 footprint, 126 memorial, 119 stone inscriptions, 145 *nāgas*, 9, 241, 248 Nahapāna (Western Kṣatrapa king), 45, 88–90, 144, 183, 245 Naik, A. V., 100, 260 nail-headed script (Siddhamātṛkā), 40 *nakṣatra*, 117, 175, 180, 196 *Nalacampū*, 234 Nālandā, 41n.116, 118, 122, 124, 222 Nalas, 146 Nānāghāṭ, 144 Nanda era, 195 Nandi (Śiva's bull), 68 Nandi-nāgarī script, 41 Nandivarman (Śālaṅkāyana king), 91 *Nāradasmṛti*, 8n.3 Narain, A. K., 181 Narasiṃha (inscriptional poet), 67, 237 Narasiṃhagupta (Gupta king), 124 Narasiṃha II (Eastern Gaṅga king) Naravarman (king of Gwalior), 125 Naravarman (Paramāra king), 149 Nārāyaṇapāla (Pāla king), 200n.7 Narendradhavala (Bhañja king), 95 narrative sculptures, 120 Nāsik, 57, 67, 69, 82, 114, 144, 185 decipherment of inscriptions from, 216, 217 literary inscriptions, 233 *nāṭaka* (drama), 80, 123, 237 Nayapāla (Pāla king), 150 Nearchos, 11, 12, 13 Nepal, 5, 104, 151–52 Aśokan minor pillar edicts, 140, 222, 250 copper plate inscriptions, 113n.5, 152 eras used in, 108, 188, 191 Newari inscriptions, 108 Sanskrit inscriptions, 92, 151, 152 Nepali, 104, 152, 160 Nepali (Newari) era, 108, 191 Newari, 104, 108, 152 *New Indian Antiquary*, 253 New Indo-Aryan, 99–105, 109, 120, 149 bilingual inscriptions, 149 iron weapon inscriptions, 130 linguistic significance of, 249 NIA. *See* New Indo-Aryan *Nidāna-sūtra*, 122 Niklas, U., 133 Nilakanta Sastri, K. A., 258 *niroṣṭhya-kāvya*, 237 Niya documents, 47, 79, 159 Niya River, 159 Non-Indo-Aryan languages, 105–9 Norman, K. R., 13, 83, 133 Norris, Edwin, 213, 214, 215, 216 North Semitic scripts, 24–28, 29–30, 35, 59 Northwestern Prakrit (Gāndhārī), 77–78 North-West Frontier Province (Pakistan), 44 numbers and numerical notation, 56–64, 194n.159 Brāhmī, 56–64, 216–17 chronograms, 173 Kharoṣṭhī, 58, 59, 63–64, 218 place-value notation, 60–63 numismatics, 1, 209–14, 215, 251 (*see also* coins)