[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Indian Epigraphy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965) › c6.s2.7 # Indian Epigraphy c6.s2.7 Indian Epigraphy c6.s2.7 - **Language:** English ### [c6.s2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c6.s2.7) Out of the numerous epigraphic records discovered respectively till the seventies and eighties of the 19th century, Alexander Cunningham, the first Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (1871-85)¹, collected those of Aśoka in a volume,² and J. F. Fleet edited the inscriptions of the Gupta age³ as Epigraphist to the Government of India (1883-86). E. Hultzsch, as Epigraphist to the Government of Madras (1886-1903), published the first volume of his \*South Indian Inscriptions\* in 1890.⁴ About a year earlier, J. Burgess, Cunningham's successor as Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, started an official journal entitled \*Epigraphia Indica\* exclusively for the publication of inscriptions.⁵ - [Previous: c6.s2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c6.s2.6) - [Next: c6.s2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c6.s2.8) - [Up: c6.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c6.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c6.s2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c6.s2.7) · Pramāṇa