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Early Indian epigraphy. One of the Edicts of Ashoka in the Brahmi script, in Lauriya Araraj, Bihar, 3rd Century BC. The first stone inscription excavated at Bhattiprolu, Andhra Pradesh believed to be from 3rd century BCE. [1] Tamil inscription from Mangulam, dated to 3rd century BCE by Iravatham Mahadevan [2] [3] 1st Century BCE.
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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
This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total. A. ... Sanskrit inscriptions in India (44 P) T. Tamil inscriptions (3 C, 9 P) V.
- Ashoka’s Edicts and Inscriptions. The history of Ashoka is reconstructed on the basis of his inscriptions. He was the first Indian king to speak directly to the people through his inscriptions.
- Kalinga Edicts. The set of Rock Edicts contains eleven out of the well known fourteen Rock Edicts of Ashoka. The language of the edicts is Magadhi Prakrita and the script being the early Brahmi.
- Maski Inscription. It is an archaeological site in the Raichur district of Karnataka. It lies on the bank of the Maski river which is a tributary of the Tungabhadra.
- Junagarh Rock inscription. Junagarh rock inscription of Saka ruler of Ujjain Rudradaman-I(150 AD) informs us that the famous Sudarsana lake was constructed by Pushyagupta, the brother-in-law and governor of Chandragupta Maurya.
From this survey it can easily be understood that Tamil Nadu has the bulk of inscriptions found in India. It has been estimated with a fair degree of accuracy that the inscriptions written in Tamil occupy the first position in volume, amounting nearly 20,000, followed by those in Kannada (10,600), Sanskrit (7,500) and Telugu (4,500).
Although stone inscriptions can be found in various areas of the subcontinent from the third century b.c.e. onward, they were most abundantly produced in South India between approximately 1000 and 1650 c.e. As a cultural practice, therefore, the production of inscriptions is most characteristic of the medieval South.
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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.
