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Indian Paleography / Buhler, Georg
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Indian Paleography
Buhler, Georg
 
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  Book ID : 34003
  ISBN-10 : 81-215-1116-X / 812151116X
  ISBN-13 : 978-81-215-1116-2 / 9788121511162
  Place of Publication : Delhi
  Year of Publication : 2004
  Edition : (Reprint)
  Language : English
  208p., Abb., Fold. Plts., Fold. Tables, 25 cm.
   
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 CONTENTS
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CONTENTS:-
 
Introductory Note/J.F Fleet

A. INDIAN PALEOGRAPHY:
I. THE ANTIQUITY OF WETTING IN INDIA AND THE ORIGIN OF THE OLDEST INDIAN ALPHABET:
1. The Indian Tradition
2. Literary Evidence for the use of Writing:
i. Brahmanical Literature
ii. Buddhistic Literature
iii. Foreign Works

3. Paleographic Evidence
4. The Origin of the Brahma Alphabet:
i. Borrowed Signs
ii. Derivative Consonants and Initial Vowels
iii. Medial Vowels and Absence of Vowel in Ligatures:
a. The System of the Brahmi
b. The System of the Dravidi

5. The Time and the Manner of the Borrowing of the Semitic Alphabet

II. THE KHAROSTHI Script:
6. How it was Deciphered
7. Use and Characteristics
8. Origin
9. Details of the Derivation:
i. Borrowed Signs
ii. Derivative Sings

10. The Varieties of the Kharosthi of Plate
11. The Archaic Variety:
i. The Radical Signs
ii. Medial Vowels and Anusvara
iii. Ligatures

12. Changes in the Later Varieties:
i. The Radical Signs
ii. Medial Vowels and Anusvara
iii. Ligatures

III. THE ANCIENT BRAHMI AND DRAVIDI FROM ABOUT B.C. 350 TO ABOUT A.D. 350:
13. How it was Deciphered
14. Common Characteristics of the Ancient Inscriptions
15. The Varieties of the Brahmi and Dravidi in Plates II & III
16. The Older Maurya Alphabet: Plate II:
i. Geographical Extensions and Duration of use
ii. Local Varieties
iii. The Radical Signs or Matrkas
iv. Medial Vowels and Anusvara
v. Ligatures

17. The Dravidi of Bhattiprolu: Plate II
18. The Last Four Alphabets of Plate II
19. The Precursors of the Northern Alphabets:
i. The Alphabet of the Northern Ksatrapas: Plate III
ii. The Alphabet of the Kusana Inscriptions: Plate III

20. The Precursors of the Southern Alphabets:
i. The Alphabet of the Ksatrapas of Malva and Gujarat: Plate III
ii. The Alphabets of the Cave-Inscriptions of the Western Dekhan and the Konkan: Plate III
iii. The Alphabet of the Jaggayyapeta Inscriptions: Plate III
iv. The Alphabet of the Pallava Prakrt Land-Grants: Plate III

IV. THE NORTHERN ALPHABETS FROM ABOUT A.D. 350:
21. Definition and Varieties
22. The So-Called Gupta Alphabet of the 4th and 5th Centuries A.D.: Plate IV:
i. Varieties
ii. Characteristics of the Epigraphic Gupta Alphabet
iii. The Gupta Alphabet in Manuscripts

23. The Acute-Angled and Nngari Types: Plates IV, V, VI
24. Details of The Changes in the Acute-Angled and the Nagari Alphabets:
i. The Matrkas
ii. Medial Vowels and so Forth
iii. The Ligatures

25. The Sarada Alphabet: Plates V and VI
26. Eastern Varieties of the Nagari Alphabet and the Arrow-Head Script:
i. Proto-Bengali: Plates V And VI
ii. The Nepalese Hooked-Characters: Plate VI
iii. The Arrow-Head Alphabet: Plato VI

V. THE SOUTHERN ALPHABETS:
27. Definition and varieties
28. The western Script and the Script of Central India: Plates VII & VIII:
i. The Western Script
ii. The Script of Central India

29. The Kanarese and Telugu Alphabet: Plates VII and VIII:
i. The Archaic Variety
ii. The Middle Variety
iii. The Old-Kanarese Alphabet

30. The Later Kalinga Script: Plates VII and VIII
31. The Grantha Alphabet: Plates VII and VIII:
i. The Archaic Variety
ii. The Middle Variety
iii. The Transitional Grantha

32. The Tamil and Vatteluttu Alphabets: Plate VIII:
i. The Tamil
ii. The Vatteluttu

VI. NUMERAL NOTATION:
33. The Numerals of the Kharosthi: Plate I
34. The Numerals of the Brahmi: Plate IX:
i. The Ancient Letter-Numerals
ii. The Decimal Notation

35. Numeral Notation by Words and Letters:
i. The Word-Numerals
ii. Numeral Notation by Letters

VII. THE EXTERNAL ARRANGEMENT OF INSCRIPTIONS AND MANUSCRIPTS:
36. The Lines, Grouping of Words, Interpunctuation and other Details:
i. The Lines
ii. The Grouping of Words
iii. Interpunctuation
iv. Mangalas and Ornamentation
v. Corrections, Ommissions and Abbreviation
vi. Pagination
vii. Seals

VIII. WRITING MATERIALS, LIBRARIES AND WRITERS:
37. Writing Materials:
i. Birch-Bark
2. Cotton Cloth
3. Wooden Boards
4. Leaves
5. Animal Substances
6. Metals
7. Stone and Brick
8. Paper
9. Ink
10. Pens, Pencils, Etc.

38. The Preservation of Manuscripts and Copper-Plates and the Treatment of Letters:
i. Manuscripts and Libraries
ii. Copper-Plates
iii. The Treatment of Letters

39. Writers, Engravers, and Stone-Masons:
i. Concluding Remarks

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Professor Buhler's Indische Palaeographie, consisting of 96 pages with 9 plates of alphabetical characters and numerals and 8 tables of explanatory transliteration of them, was originally published in 1896. An English version of this was prepared by Professor Buhler himself; the manuscript was on its way to the press at the time of his death. J.F. Fleet, with great difficulties, recovered the MS. and got it printed in Indian Antiquary. 1904, in the form of an Appendix. But it was the text without the plates and tables. And that had been the only form in which it has so far been available to our students and scholars. It is a matter of great satisfaction that for the first time the complete English version of Buhler's monumental work, along with the Plates and Tables, in its proper book-form is published. Page-references of the German original are indicated in square brackets along with Fleet's valuable Introduction to the text.
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