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Elements of South-Indian Palaeography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century, AD - Being an Introduction to the Study of South-Indian Inscriptions and Mss (Paperback)
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Elements of South-Indian Palaeography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century, AD - Being an Introduction to the Study of South-Indian Inscriptions and Mss (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
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Published in 1874, this groundbreaking monograph on the
palaeography of southern India gained great scholarly acclaim.
Arthur Coke Burnell (1840 82) served in the Indian Civil Service
and as a judge, also building up a large collection of original or
copied Sanskrit manuscripts. Originally intended as an introduction
to his vast and pioneering Classified Index to the Sanskrit
Manuscripts in the Palace at Tanjore (1880), this work won Burnell
an honorary doctorate at the University of Strasbourg. Replete with
documentary evidence, it contains copies and explanations of
numerous texts, the decipherment of which threw new light upon an
obscure chapter in the history of writing, offering new theories
for dating the introduction of writing into India and the origin of
southern Indian alphabets and numerals. Although Burnell's work has
since been built on and sometimes superseded, this is still a
much-cited resource in South Asian palaeography and epigraphy.
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Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics |
Release date: |
August 2012 |
First published: |
June 2012 |
Authors: |
A.C. Burnell
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Dimensions: |
297 x 210 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
192 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-108-04610-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-108-04610-X |
Barcode: |
9781108046107 |
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