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# 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](https://indike.org/pramana/person/sircar-dc)
- **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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c1) — 77 parts
- [c2 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c2) — 9 parts
- [c3 Abbreviations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c3) — 86 parts
- [c4 List of Plates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c4) — 18 parts
- [c5 System of Transliteration](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c5) — 12 parts
- [c6 Chapter I. Inscriptions and Their Evidence](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c6) — 5 parts
- [c7 Appendix: Indo-Muslim Epigraphy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c7) — 6 parts
- [c8 Chapter II. Language of Inscriptions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c8) — 4 parts
- [c9 Chapter III. Writing Materials](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c9) — 14 parts
- [c10 Chapter IV. Preparation and Preservation of Records](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c10) — 7 parts
- [c11 Chapter V. Copper-Plate Grants](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c11) — 10 parts
- [c12 Appendix I. Meaning of ‘Upagata’, etc.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c12) — 67 parts
- [c13 Appendix II. Stanzas on Bhūmi-Dāna Quoted in Rāja-Śāsanas](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c13) — 350 parts
- [c14 Chapter VI. Indian Epigraphy Abroad](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c14) — 20 parts
- [c15 Chapter VII. Dating and the Eras](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c15) — 26 parts
- [c16 Chapter VIII. Technical Expressions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16) — 8 parts
- [c17 Appendix I. Spurious Epigraphs](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c17) — 25 parts
- [c18 Appendix II. Interest in Epigraphic Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c18) — 10 parts
- [c19 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c19) — 109 parts
- [c20 Addenda et Corrigenda](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c20) — 67 parts

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