CONTENTS:- Introduction; Imperial Brahmi Script in Orissa; Transitional and Later Brahmi Script in Orissa; Median Kalinga Script; Box-Headed Characters in South Kosala; Acute-angled Alphabet in Totsali; Proto-Nagari Script in Orissa; Mixed Kalinga Script; Proto-Oriya Script; Conclusionl Plates.
DESCRIPTION
The book studies the palaeography of Orissa from the third to the seventeenth century AD. It focuses on the evolution of the regional script of Orssa from the Brahmi script to the advent of the modern Oriya script to the advent of the modern Oriya script through various intermediate stages. Analyzing several hundreds of copper plate and stone inscriptions and with reproduction from facsimiles of many original inscriptions, the author delves into the palaeographical pecularitiesof the scripts prevalant in different subregional/regional kingdoms of ancient and medieval Orissa.
