Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c17.6

c17.6

Cambodian script, 42 Cambyālī, 103 Campā, 157 *campū* style, 92, 236 *Cāṇakya-nīti*, 7n.2 Candellas, 149, 229 Candragupta I (Gupta king), 168, 186, 205 Candragupta II (Gupta king), 129, 145, 172, 175, 186 Candragupta Maurya, 194, 199–200n.2 Candra kings of Arakan, 154 Candras (of East Bengal), 149, 239 Carlleyle, A. C., 218 carnelian (as inscriptional material), 132 Casparis, J. G. de, 158 Caṣṭana (Western Kṣatrapa king), 45, 89, 144, 183 Cauṣaṭh-yoginī temple (Bheṛāghāṭ), 120, 248 cave inscriptions Aśokan, 136, 138 Bādāmi, 106 central Asia, 160 early studies of, 216 Jogīmārā, 76 Kārle, 89 Maharashtra, 144 Nāgārjunī, 140 Nānāghāṭ, 57 Nāsik, 67, 69 Pabhosā, 84 painted labels, 120 Rāmgaṛh hill, 141 royal donative/panegyric inscriptions, 111, 114 Sri Lanka, 28, 42, 151 Tamil Nadu, 35–36 Cedi era. *See* Kalacuri-Cedi era Central Asia, 41, 44, 45–46, 47–48, 51, 55, 56, 64, 79, 130 Indian inscriptions, 153–54, 159–60 painted label inscriptions, 120 Ceylon. *See* Sri Lanka Chakraborti, Haripada, 261 Chakravarti, N. P., 223 Cham, 157 Chamba, 103, 196 Champollion, Jean-François, 210n.66 Chancellery Language (eastern Aśokan dialect), 73–74, 76 Chandellas, 147 Chandra, Pramod, 244n.51, 245 Chandraketugaṛh, 71 charters. *See* copper plate charters Chatterjee, Asim Kumar, 243 Chatterjee, B. R., 158 Chatterjee, C. D., 53 Chaudhuri, Sibadas, 259 Chauhāns. *See* Cāhamānas *chāyāstambha* (image pillars), 119 Chhabra, B. Ch., 61, 103, 113, 115n.10, 155, 158, 196n.170, 223, 255, 261 Chilas, 44, 107–8, 109, 122, 143 China, 7 Brāhmī inscriptions, 120, 160 Buddhist inscriptions, 123 Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions, 45, 46, 47, 48 Chinese inscriptions, 109 Chinese numerals, 60 Chinese Turkestan, 159 Choudhary, R. K., 104 Christian era, conversion of inscriptional dates to, 176–77 Christian inscriptions, 107 chronograms, 173 chronological analysis, 169, 226–27 of art works, 244–46 of literature, 233 *citrakāra* (artist), 247 *citra-kāvya*, 238 Cittapa, 122, 237 civil days, 178 Clarke, Walter Eugene, 63n.201 clay (as inscriptional material), 130, 153, 154, 155 Cleopatra, 210n.66 cloth (as inscriptional material), 132 Coedès, G., 61, 155 coins bilingual (as decipherment tool), 209–15 countermarks, 46n.131 dated (Western Kṣatrapa), 45, 57, 58 and direction of Brāhmī writing, 27 of Gondophernes, 214 Greek legends, 45, 47, 108, 209–12 Indo-Greek, 45, 47, 209–12, 213 Indo-Scythian, 209–12, 218 Kharoṣṭhī legends, 45, 47, 48 Kuṣāṇa, 47, 211 reversed legend, 27 types mentioned in inscriptions, 251