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