TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patel, R. G. and others
TI  - Indic scripts: palaeographic and linguistic perspectives
SN  - 9788124604069
U1  - 411.7 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - D. K. Printworld
N2  - Contents
Preface	v
Acknowledgement	vii
Key to Transliteration	viii
Introduction	xi
1.     Aum: Aksara in Indian Thought                                        1
—Kapil Kapoor
2.     On the Origin of the Early Indian Scripts	9
—Richard Salomon
3.     Typological Observations on the Indie Scripts and their	25
Relationship with other Alphasyllburies
—Richard Salomon
4.     The Art of Writing at the Time of the Pillar Edicts of Asoka	45
—Harry Falk
5.     Evolution of Early Writing in India	71
— SubhashC.Kak
6.     Progress of Modification of Brahml Alphabet: As Revealed	85
by Inscriptions of Sixth-Eighth Centuries
—A.K.Singh
7.     The So-called Sankha-Lipi (Shell-Script)	107
— B. N. Mukherjee
8.     Evolution of Brahml Script: A Linguistic Approach	147
—DilipRajgor
The Inside Scripts 157
9.     Brahml Manuscript Palaeography  167
—Andrew Glass
10.     Aksara as a Linguistic Unit in Brahml Scripts  215
—Purushottam G. Patel
11.     Aksara as the Minimal Articulatory Unit  233
—Pramod Pandey
12.     Phonological and Generative Aspects of Brahml and its Derivatives   249
—Pramod Pandey
The Contributors  253
List of Sanskrit Terms  255
List of Inscriptions and Place Names  257
List of Languages   259
Author Index  259
Subject Index  263


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