Author: Richard Salomon Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195356667 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 401
Book 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. Inscriptional materials are of particular importance for the study of the Indian world, constituting the most detailed and accurate historical and chronological data for nearly all aspects of traditional Indian culture in ancient and medieval times. 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.
Author: S.H. Ritti K.V. Ramesh, S. Subramonia Iyer S.P. Tewari M.N. Katti and M.D. Sampath Publisher: ISBN: 9788185066684 Category : Languages : en Pages : 5340
Book Description
Thousands of inscriptions have been copied over a period of more than 100 years from different parts of India. Inscription serves as the important source material for the reconstruction of history. Coping new inscriptions is a desideratum on the one hand, they also reveal new information for further research on the other. The Epigraphical Society of India has been established with an idea to provide a forum to bring out fresh information and epigraphical discoveries made in different parts of the country. The journal of the Epigraphical Society of India will provide plenty of information, if judiously utilized,to reconstruct our past. The volumes published so far are of a considerable value and guide the epigraphists to value and guide the epigraphists to understand the various aspects of Indian history. It deals with new inscriptions and re-editing of the known texts of inscriptions, various aspects like political history, socio-cultural history, chronology, literary cultural history, chronology, literary values, palaeographical study and so on. These volumes will be very useful for the epigraphists, archaeologists, historians, linguists and will be an asset to the libraries and research institutions. EDITORS (Volume nos) Z.A. Desai & Ajay Mitra Shastri (Vol. I) Z.A. Desai (Vol. II) Z.A. Desai & Ajay Mitra Shastri (Vol. III) S.H. Ritti & Ajay Mitra Shastri (Vol. IV) S.H. Ritti & Ajay Mitra Shastri (Vol. V) S.H. Rita & Ajay Mitra Shastri (Vol. VI) Ajay Mitra Shastri (Vol. VII) Ajay Mitra Shastri & S.S. Ramachandra Murthy (Vol. VIII) Ajay Mitra Shastri & S. Subramonia Iyer (Vol. IX) S. Subramonia Iyer (Vol. X) S. Subramonia Iyer (Vol. XI) S. Subramonia Iyer (Vol. XII) S. Subramonia Iyer (Vol. XIII) S. Subramonia Iyer (Vol. XIV) S. Subramonia Iyer (Vol. XV) S. Subramonia Iyer (Vol. XVI) S. Subramonia Iyer (Vol. XVII) S.P. Tewari (Vol. XVIII) S.P. Tewari (Vol. XIX) M.D. Sampath & S. Subramonia Iyer (Vol. XX) S. Subramonia Iyer (Vol. XXI) M.D. Sampath (Vol. XXII) M.D. Sampath (Vol. XXIII) M.D. Sampath (Vol. XXIV) M.D. Sampath (Vol. XXV) S. Subramonia Iyer (Vol. XXVI) S. Subramonia Iyer (Vol. XXVII) S. Subramonia Iyer (Vol. XXVIII) M.D. Sampath (Vol. XXIX) M.D. Sampath (Vol. XXX) M.D. Sampath (Vol. XXXI) M.D. Sampath (Vol. XXXII) M.D. Sampath (Vol. XXXIII)
Author: D.C. Sircar Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass International ISBN: 9788196006679 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
In the present work, Professor D.C. Sircar deals with various problem relating to India epigraphy and it is expected to be useful to people interested in ancient Indian history in general and Indian inscriptions in particular.