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Royal inscriptions were also engraved on copper-plates as were the Indian copper plate inscriptions. The Edicts of Ashoka contain Brahmi script and its regional variant, Tamil-Brahmi, was an early script used in the inscriptions in cave walls of Tamil Nadu and later evolved into the Tamil Vatteluttu alphabet . [ 16 ]
– Ghosundi Hathibada Inscriptions, 1st-century BCE [5] Harry Falk – an Indologist, states that the king does not mention his father by name, only his mother, and in his dedicatory verse does not call himself raja (king). [15] The king belonged to a Hindu Brahmin dynasty of Kanvas, that followed the Hindu Sungas dynasty.
Other significant 1st-century inscriptions in reasonably good classical Sanskrit in the Brahmi script include the Vasu Doorjamb Inscription and the Mountain Temple inscription. [10] The early ones are related to the Brahmanical, except for the inscription from Kankali Tila which may be Jaina, but none are Buddhist.
The inscription stone measures 146 cm tall and 31 cm wide, while the characters themselves are approximately 4.2 cm tall, 5.1 cm wide, and 0.3 cm deep. The inscription is in Kannada, in the Kannada script, and is dated to 1033CE. There is a depiction of Shiva's Vahana Nandi(bull) on the inscription stone.
Kumbarahalli is situated approximately 5 km from Ivara Kandapura, Bangalore. Two inscriptions at Kumbarahalli record the donations to the Siddeshwara Temple at Ivara Kandapura. These inscriptions are related to a 1029 CE inscription at nearby Soladevanahalli, and marked the boundaries of lands donated to the Siddeshwara temple at Ivara ...
South Indian Inscriptions is an epigraphical series that has been published by the Archaeological Survey of India in 34 volumes from 1890 through the present. The texts are supplemented with summaries and an overview of the texts, both in English [1] The series was originally edited by archaeologist E. Dinesh, then V. Venkayya and Rai Bahadur.
Its significance lies in the discovery of a herostone-inscription and an ornate sculpture of Chamundi found in the village. It is housed in a new mantapa. It is home to a 10th-century Someshwara temple, and a modern-day Nandi mantapa restored with 8th-century Ganga style stone pillars, Sati stones, hero-stones and ancient Jaina idols.
This inscription, consisting of seventeen lines has been incised in Prakrit language and Brahmi script. The inscription starts on the overhanging brow of Hathigumpha cavern and the first eight lines are visible at the front. The remaining nine lines continue on the same rock, but given the sloping shape of the cavern, it appears on the cavern's ...