Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c2.7

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I have benefited from the assistance of so many individuals and institutions that it is impossible to give them all the credit they are due. Those individuals who have made particularly important contributions include Gérard Fussman (Collège de France), Oskar von Hinüber (University of Freiburg), Jason Neelis (University of Washington), K. R. Norman (Cambridge University), David Pingree (Brown University), Rosane Rocher (University of Pennsylvania), and David Shulman (Hebrew University). They either read the entire manuscript or substantial portions and freely shared of their erudition in their respective specialties, thereby remedying, in part at least, my own shortcomings. Dr. Nalini Balbir of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Paris) provided very helpful comments on Jaina materials. Especially important were the contributions of William Arraj (Seattle), who read the entire manuscript with scrupulous care and offered many valuable suggestions. Timothy Lenz (University of Washington) skillfully assisted in the preparation of the maps. I wish to express my sincere graditude to them and the many other persons who helped me—and to apologize for being unable, in some cases, to make full use of their suggestions due to limitations of space, time, and my own abilities, but certainly not as a result of any disregard for their assistance.