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Indian Paleography

1904

My editorial functions in the issue of this English version of Professor Biihler's work have thus been confined to details of a formal kind : chiefly in the matter of giving more prominence to the titlings of the sections and the divisions of them ; in transferring to a more convenient position as separated footnotes at the bottom of the pages to which they belong the notes which in the German o [...] and anywhere else where the word may occur I have taken the liberty of substituting the word " Kanarese " for the "Kanara " of the German original and of the manuscript translation ; and similarly on page 46 line 4 and page 51 lines 21 27 f. I have substituted " the Kanarese country " for the "Kauara " of the original and of the manuscript. [...] 1. — The Indian tradition.' TRH tradition of both the orthodox and the heterodox sects of India ascribes the invention of writing or at least of the chief script to the creator Brelmii and thereby claims it as a national invention of the remotest antiquity. [...] At all events finds of Indian imitations of Attic drachnies with Greek inscriptions tend to prove the use of the Greek alphabet in North-Western India before the ime of Alexander.° As some names of the Jaina list are thus shown to be ancient by the results of epigraphic researches and by Piinini as well as by the agreement of the independent tradition of the Northern Buddhists the list is not w [...] drawn from the advanced state of Vedic civilisation especially from the high development of trade and the complicated monetary transactions mentioned in Vedic works from the use of prose in the Briihmanas from the collection the ipnethodical arrangement the numeration and the analysis of the Vedic texts and from the grammatical phonetic and lexicographic researches in the Vediliwas.5 Thoug
anthropology archaeology
Pages
114
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146194
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-11 Johann Buhler view
Indian Paleography from about B.C. 350 to about A.D. 1300
1-102 G. Buhler view

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