Multilingual Inscriptions

[Jürgen Neuss]

dear peter,

i don't know whether this is of importance for your query, but immediately  
the inscription at saluvanguppam came to my mind. it is an identical text  
inscribed on the northern and southern wall of a temple in northern and  
southern brahmi script respectively.
see:
Hultzsch, E.: "Inscriptions on the Cave-Temple at Saluvanguppam." EI  
10.1909-10: 12-14.

cheers

j





Am Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:44:36 +0200 hat Peter Friedlander  
<peterfriedlander at yahoo.com.au> geschrieben:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am working on a piece about translation in India pre-1800 and wonder  
> if anybody has written on inscriptions which appear in more than one  
> language. I am thinking of things like the way that Ashokan inscriptions  
> have the same messages localised to the speech of different locations.  
> Are there any examples from more recently of rulers issuing edicts in  
> several scripts and languages?
>
> thanks
>
> Peter
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