Indian Epigraphy
Writing materials, languages, eras (with conversion), dating formulae, royal titles, land grants, administrative and fiscal terms, forgeries and the history of decipherment.
- Language
- English
- Author
- D. C. Sircar
- Extent
- 3,498 passages, 166,968 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass 1965; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by… · In copyright (D. C. Sircar †1984); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 77 parts
- c2 Preface — 9 parts
- c3 Abbreviations — 86 parts
- c4 List of Plates — 18 parts
- c5 System of Transliteration — 12 parts
- c6 Chapter I. Inscriptions and Their Evidence — 5 parts
- c7 Appendix: Indo-Muslim Epigraphy — 6 parts
- c8 Chapter II. Language of Inscriptions — 4 parts
- c9 Chapter III. Writing Materials — 14 parts
- c10 Chapter IV. Preparation and Preservation of Records — 7 parts
- c11 Chapter V. Copper-Plate Grants — 10 parts
- c12 Appendix I. Meaning of ‘Upagata’, etc. — 67 parts
- c13 Appendix II. Stanzas on Bhūmi-Dāna Quoted in Rāja-Śāsanas — 350 parts
- c14 Chapter VI. Indian Epigraphy Abroad — 20 parts
- c15 Chapter VII. Dating and the Eras — 26 parts
- c16 Chapter VIII. Technical Expressions — 8 parts
- c17 Appendix I. Spurious Epigraphs — 25 parts
- c18 Appendix II. Interest in Epigraphic Studies — 10 parts
- c19 Index — 109 parts
- c20 Addenda et Corrigenda — 67 parts