Re: [INDOLOGY] Brāhmī in Sri Lanka

Fri Sep 11 07:37:52 UTC 2020

Dear Murugaiyan,

Thank you very much for the reference.Unfortunately, the issue in question of the Indian Historical Review is not available here, not is possible to access the volume of 2017 electronically. Do you or someone else on the list happen to have a pdf?

Herman

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Verzonden: donderdag 10 september 2020 22:32:06
Aan: Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan; Tieken, H.J.H.; indology
Onderwerp: Re: [INDOLOGY] Brāhmī in Sri Lanka

Dear Colleagues,
There is also a review by Dilip K. Chakrabarti on K. Rajan's book:
"K. Rajan, Early Writing System: A Journey from Graffiti to Brahmi. Madurai:
Pandya Nadu Centre for Archaeological Research, 2015, XXII + 439 pp.,
`2290 (Hardback).
DOI: 10.1177/0376983617694685"
Best regards
Murugaiyan

Le 10/09/2020 à 19:50, Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan via INDOLOGY a écrit :
In this lecture at Harvard University in 2016, Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri seems to support Rajan’s dates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6545ZZ2LCo

Regards,
Palaniappan

From: Sudalaimuthu Palaniappant <palaniappa at aol.com><mailto:palaniappa at aol.com>
Date: Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 12:47 PM
To: "Tieken, H.J.H." <H.J.H.Tieken at hum.leidenuniv.nl><mailto:H.J.H.Tieken at hum.leidenuniv.nl>, Indology List <indology at list.indology.info><mailto:indology at list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Brāhmī in Sri Lanka

Dear Herman,

Have you looked at the discussion of Tamil Brahmi inscriptions in K. Rajan’s “Early Writing System: A Journey from Graffiti to Brahmi”, Pandya Nadu Centre for Historical Research, Madurai, 2015? See pp. 404-405. Table 8.2 on p. 407 has six pot sherds with Tamil Brahmi dated between 4th to 6th century BCE.

Rajan states on p. 400, “The close observations of Damiḻi (Tamiḻ-Brāhmī) and Sri Lankan Brāhmī (Prakrit-Brāhmī) suggest they had close relations with each other in terms of paleography, probably due to geographical proximity, than the Aśokan-Brāhmī.”

Regards,
Palaniappan

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Date: Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 5:17 AM
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Subject: [INDOLOGY] Brāhmī in Sri Lanka

Dear List members,

In "Pasage to India? Anuradhapura and the Early Use of the Brahmi Script" (Cambridge Archaeological Journal 6/1 (1996), pp. 73-97) Coningham et al. conclude that the Brāhmī script was used on Sri Lanka by traders at least a century earlier than in "India" by Aśoka. His dating of the inscribed pottery shreds in question is based on the radiocarbon method. In fact, a large part of the article is dedicated to a discussion of this method. What I would like to know is if there has been a reaction to Coningham's conclusions. Salomon (1998) does not discuss them and von Hinüber (1990) and Falk (1993) could not.

With kind regards, Herman Tieken

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