Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c17.35.3

c17.35.3

*See subhead* hybrid (*above*) oral tradition of, 8 poetic-style inscriptions, 89, 171 post-Gupta inscriptions, 147–50 private donative inscriptions, 118 semiliterate, 95 status value, 86 toponyms, 250 trilingual inscriptions, 109 vocabulary, 97–98 Śāntivarman (Kadamba king), 111, 146 Saptarṣi era, 190, 196–97 Śarabhapurīyas, 146 Śāradā script, 103 in Afghanistan, 153 biscript inscription, 71 development of, 40 Sarasvatī, 8 Sārnāth, 81, 82, 144 excavations at, 222 *Śārṅgadhara-paddhati*, 234 *sarpabandha*, 125–26, 127 Sarvāstivādin era (alleged), 181 Sarvāstivādins, 143 *śāsana*, 165 Śāstrī, Bhavadatta, 255 Sastri, H.