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Indic Scripts

Palaeographic and Linguistic Perspectives by: P.G. Patel , Pramod Pandey , Dilip Rajgor

This Volume is the first attempt to cross-fertilize palaeography and linguistics in the ongoing research on Brahma and its daughter scripts used in the present-day India. The palaeographic papers cover the main issues in the decipherment of the Indus Valley script, and the linguistic papers explore the issues of the roots of the orthographic unit akshara in Vedic phonetics. Palaeographers — epigraphists, linguists and computational scientists, will find this volume interesting and useful.

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ISBN: 9788124604069
Year Of Publication: 2007
Edition: 1st
Pages : xiii, 266
Bibliographic Details : Indices
Language : English
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Size: 25
Weight: 900

Overview

This volume presents the advances in the ongoing research on Brahmi and its daughter scripts used in the present day India. It brings together two main trends: evolutionary-historical development and linguistic grounding. This is the first attempt to cross-fertilize palaeography and linguistics. The palaeographic papers cover the main issues in the decipherment of the Indus Valley script, the origin and evolution of Brahmi, and the palaeographic methods and considerations employed in the decipherment of scripts. These present different trends and arguments of writers on the origin of Brahmi as having been around the Mauryan era or at a much earlier stage, relate to broader historical and cultural issues. They also deal with the need for the use of established and more current palaeographic techniques in classifying regional and stylistic variants of scripts. The linguistic papers in the volume explore the issues of the roots of the orthographic unit aksara in Vedic phonetics, its claim as a minimal articulatory phonetic unit, and the properties of Brahmi as a generative writing system. The philosophical and linguistic underpinning of the concept aksara is shown to thread its use in the varieties of treatises, from the Vedas to phonetic texts. The papers help in providing linguistic evidence for historical accounts of the script as an invention at a given time or as an evolving evolutionary system, apart from relating the development of the script to the linguistic history of India. Palaeographers — epigraphists, linguists and computational scientists, will find this volume interesting and useful.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgement
Key to Transliteration
Introduction
1. Aum : Aksara in Indian Thought
— Kapil Kapoor
2. On the origin of the Early Indian Scripts
— Richard Salomon
3. Typological Observations on the Indic Scripts and their Relationship with Other Alphasyllburies
— Richard Salomon
4. The art of Writing at the Time of the Pillar Edicts of Ashoka
— Harry Falk
5. Evolution of Early Writing in India
— Subhash C. Kak
6. Progress of Modification of Brahmi Alphabet: As Revealed by Inscriptions of Sixth-Eighth Centuries
— A.K. Singh
7. The So-Called Shankha-Lipi (Shell Script)
— B.N. Mukherjee
8. Evolution of Brahmi Script: A Linguistic Approach
— Dilip Rajgor
9. Brahmi Manuscript Palaeography
— Andrew Glass
10. Akshara as a Linguistic Unit in Brahmi Scripts
— Purushottam G. Patel
11. Akshara as the Minimal Articulatory Unit
— Pramod Pandey
12. Phonological and Generative Aspects of Brahmi and its Derivatives
— Pramod Pandey
The Contributors
List of Sanskrit Terms
List of Inscriptions and Place Names
List of Languages
Author Index
Subject Index

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P.G. Patel’s background consists of four and a half years of Lectureship in English at the M.S. University of Baroda, a year with Prof. R.W. Zandvoort at Groningen University, twenty-eight years of research and teaching at the University of Ottawa, and two years in the Neuropsychology Programme with Professor Paul Satz at UCLA, as Visiting Scientist, and The Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Research Fellowship five times. He was a co-author with D.G. Doehring of Reading Disabilities (Academic Press, 1981). His other books are Reading Acquisition in India: Models of Learning and Dyslexia (Sage India, 2004), Indic Scripts: Palaeographic and Linguistic Perspectives (edited with P.K.S. Pandey and Dilip Rajgor, D.K. Printworld, 2007), and The Brahmi Writing System: Cross-fertilizing Epigraphy, Archaeology and Linguistics (Black and White, 2010). His research articles and book reviews have appeared in standard journals.
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Pramod Kumar Sudhakar Pandey, with research degrees in English and Linguistics, was awarded with Third World Linguists Award (The Hague), Nuffield Foundation Travelling Fellowship (York, England), 1987 Linguistic Institute Fellowship (Stanford University) and Rockefellar Foundation Residency Fellowship (Bellagio, Italy). His research interests are: Phonetics -- Phonology -- Morphology, Historical Linguistics, Writing Systems and Applied Linguistics.
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Dilip Rajgor is a PhD in Indian numismatics, M.A. in archaeology and P.G. Diploma in linguistics. He has contributed sixty research articles to various journals and books. He has also published 13 books on Indian numismatics. Dr Rajgor was awarded the Lowick Memorial Grant of the Royal Numismatic Society, UK in 1991; and the Indological Research Fellowship of the Asiatic Society of Bombay in 1994-95. Presently, he is working as Director of University of Mumbai Dinesh Mody Numismatic Museum, and is editing ICS Newsletter.
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