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082			_a411.7 _bPAT
100			_aPatel, R. G. and others
245			_aIndic scripts _bpalaeographic and linguistic perspectives
260			_aNew Delhi _bD. K. Printworld _c2007
300			_axiii,266p.
520			_aContents 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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