Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c17.38

c17.38

Tajikistan, 44, 142–43, 154 Ṭākarī script, 103 Takla Makan Desert, 159 Talain (Mon), 155 Tamil Brāhmī inscriptions, 35–36, 40, 160 Tamil language and script, 31, 35–36, 40, 41, 105–6, 148 bilingual inscriptions, 101, 148, 149, 155 inscriptions from outside India, 150, 155 Kollam era dating, 189–90 vowel cancellation marker. *See puḷḷi* Tamil Nadu, 189 cave inscriptions, 35–36 inscriptions recording performing arts, 248 Tamluk, 71 *tāmrapaṭṭa* (copper plate charter), 114 *tāmraphalī* (copper plate charter), 114 *tamraśāsana* (copper plate charter), 114 *Tāṇḍava-lakṣaṇa*, 248 Tanjore Marathas, 100 Tarim Basin, 45, 47, 79 *Tathāgatahṛdaya-dhāraṇī*, 160 taxation, 232 Taxila, 44, 47, 107 (*see also* Pakistan) Taylor, Isaac, 23–24, 52 technical terminology, 98, 164, 249 Telugu Coḷas, 106 Telugu-Kannada script, 40, 41, 42, 71 Telugu language and script, 106 bilingual inscriptions, 100, 149 characteristics, 34 Oriya inscriptions in Telugu script, 101 trilingual inscriptions, 109 Termez, 153, 154 terra-cotta (as inscriptional material), 71, 130 Terrien de Lacouperie, 17, 50 Tessitori, L. P., 103 “test letters,” 170 Tewari, S. P., 98, 249 Thailand, 81, 155 Thai script, 42 Thaplyal, Kiran Kumar, 124, 147 Thomas, Edward, 52, 59, 215, 217 Tibet, 41, 123