Indian epigraphy : a guide to the study of inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan languages / Richard Salomon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salomon, Richard, 1948- author.

Series:

South Asia research (New York, N.Y.)

Oxford scholarship online.

South Asia research

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inscriptions, Indo-Aryan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text surveys all the inscriptional material - documents written in ink on various surfaces, or carved into stone and metal, as well as seals - in the Indo-Aryan languages. It presents the corpus of these inscriptions in a way which should be accessible to both specialists and non-specialists.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Note on Citation and Bibliographic Form; 1 The Scope and Significance of Epigraphy in Indological Studies; 2 Writing and Scripts in India; 3 The Languages of Indic Inscriptions; 4 Survey of Inscriptions in the Indo-Aryan Languages; 5 Methods of Epigraphic Study; 6 The History of Indian Epigraphic Studies; 7 Epigraphy as a Source for the Study of Indian Culture; 8 Bibliographic Survey; Appendix: Selection of Typical Inscriptions; Bibliography; Index of Inscriptions Cited; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-327) and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773960-1

1-280-52832-X

0-19-535666-7

1-4237-5888-9

OCLC:

466425560