Indian palaeography.

Indian Palaeography

by Ahmad Hasan Dani

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Indian Palaeography

by Ahmad Hasan Dani

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Indian Palaeography

by Ahmad Hasan Dani

Description: pp. 297. New. Contents: Foreword/A.L. Basham. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The Indus script. 3. Origin of Brahmi. 4. Asokan Brahmi. 5. The provincial Brahmi script to the middle of the first century A.D. 6. Brahmi writing styles between the first and the fourth centuries A.D. 7. The proto-regional scripts. 8. Ceylon. 9. South-East Asia. 10. The Kharoshthi script. Appendix. Glossary of terms. Index. "The study of Indian palaeography grew out of the necessity for deciphering the large number of ... read more

Indian Palaeography

by Dani Ahmad Hasan

Description: Biblio., {NEW BOOK}, Size 23cm, pp. xxix + 297, Appendix, Abbreviations, Index, 23 Plates, Table, Appendix. read more

Indian Palaeography

by Ahmad Hasan Dani

Description: New in New jacket. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. The study of Indian palaeography grew out of the necessity for deciphering the large number of inscriptions found in the sub-continent. A further development came through the need to use the changing forms of letters as an aid to determining the dates of some inscriptions. For this latter purpose we now have a large number of charts at our disposal. Yet an absolute chronology has not been possible. The present work is intended to explain the difficulty, to ... read more

Indian Palaeography

by Ahmad Hasan Dani

Description: Appendix, Size 23cm, [NEW TITLE], Biblio., 23 Plates, Abbreviations, pp. xxix + 297, Table, Appendix, Index. read more