Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c17.35.2

c17.35.2

D., 250 Śaṅkara-Nārāyaṇa (deity), 157 *śaṅkha* (conch shell), 60, 70 Śaṅkhalipi (shell characters), 70, 71 Sannati excavations, 137, 145, 224 Sanscrit College, 205 Sanskrit, 10, 13, 86–98 bilingual inscriptions, 91, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 148, 149, 150, 154, 156, 157, 159, 191, 213 Brāhmī adapted for, 30, 143–44 “Buddhist Hybrid,” 81, 83, 85–86, 94 classical, 95–96, 98, 147 copper plate charters, 114, 115, 144 Deccan inscriptions, 148 Dravidian languages supplanting, 148 earliest long inscription, 144 early inscriptions, 86–88, 90–92, 141 early readings of inscriptions, 199–203 editing of inscriptional texts, 162–64 emergence in inscriptions, 72 as epigraphic language, 86–98 first major literary inscription, 86 functional varieties, 95, 96–98 grammatical inscriptions, 125–26 Gupta period inscriptions, 145, 146 hybrid, 37, 81–86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 143, 249 influence on inscriptional Prakrits, 72, 81, 82, 84 informal varieties, 250 inscriptions from outside India, 92, 151–60, 183 in Kharoṣṭhī script, 47n.38, 56 late inscriptions, 149–50, 195 lexicographical data, 249 linguistic characteristics, 94–98 literary, 4, 89–90, 94, 98, 157, 249 literature, 233–38 memorial inscriptions, 119–20 mixed.