Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c17.31

c17.31

Perumal, A. N., 248 Petech, Luciano, 191 Phalgudeva (father of Dhanadeva of Ayodhyā), 86 phantom eras, 195–96 *Philologica Indica* (Lüders), 260 Philoxenos (Indo-Greek king), 211n.71 Phoenician language and script, 24–28, 26, 27, 28, 29, 59 photographic reproductions, 161, 162 pictographic-acrophonic system, 19 pilgrims' records, 102, 107, 108, 121–25 private donative inscriptions, 118 Priyadarśin. *See* Piyadasī proper names, transliterated (as decipherment method), 210n.66 Proto-Bengali (Gauḍī) script, 41, 101 Proto-Kannada script, 19 Proto-Śāradā script, 40 Proto-Sinhalese, 104 Proto-Telugu-Kannada script, 71 Przyluski, Jean, 51 pseudo-inscriptions (Vikramkhol), 10, 20 Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 227 Ptolemy [V], 210n.66 Pulakeśin II (Cālukya king), 95, 111, 147, 230 *pulli*, 16n.36, 37n.106 punctuation, 66–68, 163 Punjab, 188 Punjabi, 103, 154 Punjabi (Gurmukhī) script, 41, 188 Purlē plates, 62 Pūrṇavarman (king of Java), 159 *pūrṇimānta* months, 182, 184, 186, 188, 197 Pūrṇṇāditya, 69 *pūrvā* (“preceding [date]”), 98 *pūrvā* (“preceding [*praśasti*]”), 235 Pūrvavidehalipi, 9 Puṣpalipi, 9 Puṣyamitra (Śuṅga king), 86n.44 Pyu, 154