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Unlike the neighbouring states where early inscriptions were written in Sanskrit and Prakrit, the early inscriptions in Tamil Nadu used Tamil [21] along with some Prakrit. Tamil has the extant literature amongst the Dravidian languages , but dating the language and the literature precisely is difficult.
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The earliest traces of epigraphy in South Asia are etched in Tamil Brahmi, an early variant of the Brahmi script used to write Tamil characters, onto stones and potsherds found in Sri Lanka, dating to c. the sixth century B.C.E. (possibly the seventh century B.C.E.). Inscriptions in the Brahmi script appeared on the Indian subcontinent proper, from...
The earliest written materials on the Indian subcontinent are the Edicts of Ashoka, a collection of 33 inscriptions on the Pillars of Ashoka, as well as boulders and cave walls, made by the Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan dynasty during his reign from 272 to 231 B.C.E.. These inscriptions have been found in over 35 locations throughout the areas of m...
The Hathigumpha inscription ("Elephant Cave" inscription) from Udayagiri near Bhubaneshwar in Orissa was written by Kharavela, the king of Kalinga in India during the second century B.C.E. The Hathigumpha inscription consists of seventeen lines incised in deep cut Brahmi letters on the overhanging brow of a natural cavern called Hathigumpha on the ...
The Rabatak inscription, written on a rock in the Bactrian language and Greek script, was found in 1993, at the site of Rabatak, near Surkh Kotal in Afghanistan. The inscription relates to the rule of the Kushan emperor Kanishka and gives remarkable clues to the genealogy of the Kushan dynasty. The first lines of the inscription describe Kanishka a...
The Halmidi inscription is the oldest known inscription in the Kannada script. The inscription is carved on a pillar, that was discovered in the village of Halmidi, a few miles from the famous temple town of Belur in the Hassan district of Karnataka, and is dated 450 C.E. The original inscription has now been deposited in an archaeological museum i...
Tamil copper-plate inscriptions are copper-plate records of grants of villages, plots of cultivable lands or other privileges to private individuals or public institutions by the members of the various South Indian royal dynasties. The study of these inscriptions, has been especially important in reconstructing the history of Tamil Nadu. These reco...
Basham, A. L. A Cultural history of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. ISBN 0198219148.Caldwell, Robert. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Language. Trübner & co. 1875.Dhammika, Shravasti, and Aśoka. 1993. The Edicts of King Asoka: An English Rendering. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society. ISBN 955-24-0104-6.Hultzsch, Eugen. Tamil and Sanskrit: From Stone and Copper-Plate Edicts at Mamallapuram, Kanchipuram in the North Arcot District, and Other Parts of the Madras Presidency, Chiefly Collected in 1886...All links retrieved March 1, 2018. 1. South Indian Inscriptions 2. Banavasi Old Kannada Inscription 3. Languages and Scripts of India 4. The Language of Inscriptions
Dec 10, 1998 · 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.
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For example, the rich epigraphic materials from cave Hoq of Socotra Island in the western Indian Ocean, mostly written in Brahmi script and Sanskrit language, have been discovered to be visitors’ records thanks to the fascinating study of Ingo Strauch and his teammates, who edited these inscriptions (Indic, South Arabian, Aksumite, Palmyran and Greek) ranging mostly between the first and the ...
The Indus script, also known as the Harappan script and the Indus Valley Script, is a corpus of symbols produced by the Indus Valley Civilisation.Most inscriptions containing these symbols are extremely short, making it difficult to judge whether or not they constituted a writing system used to record a Harappan language, any of which are yet to be identified. [3]
Ashoka then made the first edicts in the Indian language, written in the Brahmi script, from the 11th year of his reign (according to his own inscription, "two and a half years after becoming a secular Buddhist", i.e. two and a half years at least after returning from the Kalinga conquest of the eighth year of his reign, which is the starting point for his remorse towards the horrors of the ...
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Nov 14, 2016 · These examples were found on a set of royal rock inscriptions spread in North and Central India by the Indian emperor Ashoka (r. 268 BCE to 232 BCE), known as the Edicts of Ashoka or Ashokan Inscriptions. Despite the lack of earlier examples, some scholars argued that the Brahmi script had originated earlier than the 3rd century BCE.
