Index:The Origin of the Bengali Script.djvu

Title	The Origin of the Bengali Script
Author	Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay
Year	1919
Publisher	University of Calcutta
Location	Calcutta
Source	djvu
Progress	Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
Transclusion	Fully transcluded

Pages (key to Page Status)

– – – – i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x xi xii 1 2 3 4 Pl_I – 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pl_II – 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pl_III – 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Pl_IV – 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Pl_V – 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Pl_VI – 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 Pl_VII – 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Pl_VIII – 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 Pl_IX – 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 Pl_X – 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 – – – –

CONTENTS

		Page
Chapter I.	Introduction …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …	1
Chapter II.	The Northern Indian Alphabets (B.C. 350—A.D. 600) …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …	7
A.	The Older Maurya Alphabet …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …	7
B.	Varieties of the Older Maurya Alphabet …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …	8
C.	The Younger Maurya Alphabet …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …	11
D.	Kusana Inscriptions …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …	18
E.	The so-called Gupta Alphabet of the 4th and 5th Centuries A.D. …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …	23
Chapter III.	The Eastern Alphabet, 550-1100 A.D. …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …	37
Chapter IV.	The Final Development of the Alphabet …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …        …	87

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

I.	Fragmentary Inscription on the Image of Buddha, Rajgir, Patna.
II.	Fragmentary Kusana Inscription, Rajgir, Patna.
III.	Inscription of the time of Mahendrapala, Ramgaya, Gaya.
IV.	Dinajpur Pillar Inscription—Saka 888 (?).
V.	Bodhicharyavatara (Ms. Ga 8067) Fol. 65 Obv. Collection of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
VI.	Ibid, Fol. 179, Rev.
VII.	Prapitamahesvara Temple Inscription, Gaya—V. S. 1299.
VIII.	Krishnakirttana—Fol. 179, Rev. Collection of the Bangiya Sahitya Pariṣad.
IX.	The Umga Hill Inscription of Bhairavendra.
X.	Kamakhya Hill Inscription of Pramatha Sinha—Saka 1666.