Epigraphia Indica Vol 05

SR No.: 032559
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 458
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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APPENDIX
A LIST OF THE INSCRIPTIONS OF NORTHERN INDIA
FROM ABOUT A.D. 400.
Br PROFESSOR F. KIELHORN, G.I.E.; GÖTTINGEN. TN compliance with the request of several scholars who are interested in Indian epigraphy, I I publish herewith part of a list of Indian inscriptions, which primarily I had prepared for my own use only. What I offer at present, may be roughly described as a list of the inscriptions of Northern India, from about the end of the fourth century A.D. Similar lists of the more numerons inscriptions of Southern India, and of the inscriptions before A.D. 400, are under revision and may be published hereafter.
Within the limits indicated, this list gives, or is intended to give, all inscriptions of any importance that have been published, or noticed with details of their contenta, in the periodicals and official volumes accessible to me, and it includes some unpublished inscriptions of which rubbings or impressions have been kindly presented to me from time to time by Drs. Burgess, Fleet, Führer, Hornle and Hultzsch, and by the late Sir A. Cunningham. I shall be grateful to every one who will draw my attention to any inscription which may have been omitted. As it stands at present, the list deals with rather more than 700 inscriptions: about 250 copperplate inscriptions, and the rest, with one exception, inscriptions on stones and rocks.
. In arranging the list, I have been guided partly by the eragd according to which the inscriptions are dated, and partly by the localities where the originals were discovered. Thus Nos. 1-568 give the inscriptions dated (or, in some cases, supposed to be dated) according to the MAlava-Vikrama era (1-328, marked V.), the Sakà era (346-386, marked s.), the KalachuriChodi ers (387-425, marked K.), the Gupta-Valabhi era (436-507, marked G. or Valabhi-s.), the Harsha ers (528-547, marked H.), and the Newår era (559-568, marked N.); together generally, with those undated inscriptions the time of which may be approximately determined by reference to the inscriptions dated according to one of the eras mentioned (329-345, 426-435 508-527, and 548-558). Nos. 569-587 give the small number of inscriptions which are (or have. been taken to be) dated according to the Saptarshi era (569-574), the era of Buddha's Nirvana (575), the Lakshmaņasona era (576-578), and the Simha era (579-584), with references to three inscriptions which, dated according to other eras, also quote the corresponding years of the Hijra era, the " Bengali San," and the Ilahi era of the emperor Akbar (585-587). And Nos. 588-688 give the remaining inscriptions, which either contain no date at all or are for the
1 This number includes sone inscriptions which are mentioned in footnotes only. Some inscriptions which came to my notice when part of this list was already in type are given at the end, auder the head of Addenda.
* This is the iron pillar inscription No. 508.
The list includes all Indian inscriptious known to me which are dated according to the Saptarshi era, the era of Buddha's Nirv&na, and the MAlava-Vikrama, Kalachuri-Chedi, Gupta-Valabht, Harshs, Newår, Lakshwanasena. Simba, and Gångêya eras. But it contains only 21 inscriptions dated exclusively according to the Saka era, and uone which are dated according to the era of the Kaliyuga, and the Kollam and Chalukya-Vikrama eras. Years of the twelve years cycle of Jupiter are quoted in the Gupta dates of Nos. 451, 453, 456 and 459, and in No. 522; years of the sixty-years cycle of Jupiter ip ouly eleven (Vikrams) dates, and aska (regual) years only in Xos. 367, 369. 370, Aud 671.