Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c17.7

c17.7

Western Kṣatrapa, 207, 216 *See also* numismatics Coḷas, 105, 148, 149, 150, 171 epigraphic records, 231, 232 Colebrooke, Henry T., 201, 202–3, 217 collateral suppression, 228 columns. *See* pillar inscriptions comparative paleography, 169 computers (use in epigraphic studies), 165, 224 conch shell (auspicious symbol), 68, 70 consonantal clusters (Prakrit), 75–76 consonantal conjuncts, 14, 16, 21, 30 in Aśokan inscriptions, 18 development of for Sanskrit, 37 in Kharoṣṭhī, 43, 48–49, 55–56, 213 *Contributions of Sanskrit Inscriptions to Lexicography* (Tewari), 98, 249 copper plate charters, 39, 61, 62, 80, 113–18, 129 abbreviations, 67 in Ahom, 108 in Assamese, 41 in Bengali, 41 bilingual, 91, 100, 103, 105, 148 corrections, 68 Deccan, 148 donees, 128, 130, 142, 156 early articles on, 216 early readings of, 200, 202, 203 Eastern Gaṅga, 62 elements, 115–18 embellished signatures, 69, 70 findspots, 229 forgeries, 114n.6, 118, 165–68 geographical identifications, 250 Gupta feudatory and allied dynasties, 146, 147 in Hindi, 101, 102–3 Hun, 146 Islamic period, 150 in Kannada, 105, 106, 148 in Malayalam, 106 in Marathi, 100, 101 Nepal, 152 in Newari, 104, 108 numerical figures in, 216–17 in Oriya, 101 Pallava, 114, 146 Paramāra, 147 in Prakrit, 114, 146 reissues, 118, 166 Śālaṅkāyana, 114 in Sanskrit, 114, 115 seals, 124n.36, 125, 129 in semiliterate Sanskrit, 95 in Tamil, 105, 148, 149 technical terminology, 164 toponyms in, 249, 250 Coptic alphabet, 22 *Corpus of Dedicatory Inscriptions from Temples of West Bengal* (Bhattacharyya), 224 Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, 219–20, 222, 254 corrections and omissions, 68 cotton (as inscriptional material), 132 Court, A., 213 "Court Mask," 129 Cretan Linear B syllabary, 205 criminal law, 251 crystal (as inscriptional material), 130 cultic inscriptions, 122–23, 124, 126, 131 Buddhist, 140, 242–43 Vedic sacrifices, 111n.3, 128, 131, 239 *See also* relic cult cuneiform, 59, 209, 210 Cunningham, Alexander, 19, 44, 50n.147, 59, 207n.47, 213–14, 216, 218, 223 Archaeological Survey of India, 218 *Bhilsa Topes, The*, 216 *Inscriptions of Aśoka*, 219 current years, 176 in Śaka era dates, 176 in Vikrama era dates, 182 cursivization, 40, 52, 55 Cust, R. N., 24n.67