Indian epigraphy
a guide to the study of inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan languages
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Author
Publication
1998 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
94,500 words, Guess
Page Count
378 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL795885M
- ISBN-100195099842
- OCLC Control Number252595337
- OCLC Control Number32854176
- OCLC Control Numberindianepigraphyg0000salo
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number95031756
- Goodreads4728578
- LibraryThing1666155
Classifications
- DDC491/.1
- LCCCN1150 .S25 1998
Description
This book provides a general survey of all the inscriptional material in the Sanskrit, Prakrit, and modern Indo-Aryan languages, including donative, dedicatory, panegyric, ritual, and literary texts carved on stone, metal, and other materials. This material comprises many thousands of documents dating from a range of more than two millennia, found in India and the neighboring nations of South Asia, as well as in many parts of Southeast, central, and East Asia. The inscriptions are written, for the most part, in the Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts and their many varieties and derivatives. Richard Salomon surveys the entire corpus of Indo-Aryan inscriptions in terms of their contents, languages, scripts, and historical and cultural significance. He presents this material in such a way as to make it useful not only to Indologists but also non-specialists, including persons working in other aspects of Indian or South Asian studies, as well as scholars of epigraphy and ancient history and culture in other regions of the world.
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Series Statement
- South Asia research
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