[INDOLOGY] Grantha/South Indian Paleography Resources?

Manu Francis manufrancis at gmail.com
Wed Sep 27 08:29:20 UTC 2017


You will find Burnell's tables and others here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o6monusnfpvj8om/AAD9Gtquu0BLr45NnGf7hnCRa?dl=0

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Emmanuel Francis
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2017-09-27 9:48 GMT+02:00 Christophe Vielle via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info>:

> Also useful (for the ductus etc.) for Grantha:
> • K. Venugopalam, A Primer in Grantha characters, publ. by James H. Nye,
> 1983
> https://archive.org/stream/APrimerInGranthaCharacters/A%
> 20Primer%20in%20Grantha%20Characters_djvu.txt
> http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_toc.html?BOOKID=PK419.V468_1983
>
> • Virtual Vinodh, Grantha Primer
> http://www.virtualvinodh.com/wp/grantha/
>
> And for Telugu:
> • Edward C. Hill, A Primer in Telugu characters, Indological Primers
> Series ed. James H. Nye, New Delhi: Manohar, 1991
> http://www.learningtelugu.org/files/A%20primer%20of%
> 20Telugu%20charaters.pdf
> http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/dig_toc.html?BOOKID=PL4772.H550_1991
>
> Le 26 sept. 2017 à 21:55, Eric Gurevitch via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
>
> In addition to the terrific works already mentioned, a good place to start
> (especially for it’s bibliography) is the following essay:
>
> Rath, Saraju. 2012. “Varieties of Grantha Script: The Date and Place of
> Origin of Manuscripts.” In *Aspects of Manuscript Culture in South India*,
> edited by Saraju Rath, 187–206. Leiden: Brill.
>
> On Sep 26, 2017, at 2:13 PM, Lubin, Tim via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> Professor Grünendahl’s manual is indeed indispensable, since it covers
> Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam scripts as well, with lots of charts.  For
> comparative paleographic charts, though, you could consult:
>
> Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth
> Century, A. D.: Being an Introduction to the Study of South-Indian
> Inscriptions and Mss
> by Arthur Coke Burnell
> Trübner & Company, 1878:
> https://books.google.com/books?id=ywcIAAAAQAAJ
> Unfortunately, the Google Books scan, as so often, shows some of the
> plates folded up rather than open, so you’ll need to procure a hard copy
> from a library.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Timothy Lubin
> Professor of Religion and Adjunct Professor of Law
> Chair of the Department of Religion
> 204 Tucker Hall
> Washington and Lee University
> Lexington, Virginia 24450
>
> http://home.wlu.edu/~lubint
> http://wlu.academia.edu/TimothyLubin
> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=930949
>
>
>
> From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
> INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> Reply-To: Patrick Olivelle <jpo at austin.utexas.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 12:40 PM
> To: Charles DiSimone <disimone at alumni.stanford.edu>
> Cc: INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Grantha/South Indian Paleography Resources?
>
> Reinhold Grunendahl, South Indian Scripts in Sanskrit Manuscripts and
> Prints. Harrassowitz, 2001.
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 26, 2017, at 11:26 AM, Charles DiSimone via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
> Might anyone suggest a good paleographical resource for manuscripts in
> Grantha script (as well as other scripts used in Sanskrit (or Tamil and
> Telugu) manuscripts produced in the South)? I'm presently making use of
> Bühler's Indische Palaeographie and any other resources would be much
> appreciated.
> Thanks in advance,
> Charles
> --
> Dr. des. Charles DiSimone
> Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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