Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
James Prinsep FRS (20 August 1799 – 22 April 1840) was an English scholar, orientalist and antiquary. He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and is best remembered for deciphering the Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts of ancient India.
his edition of James Prinsep's Essays on Indian Antiquities and Useful Tables (2 vols. 1858), which he annotated. Jainism or The Early Faith of Asoka [3] Other publications included: [1] Coins of the Kings of Ghazni (1847, 1858); Initial Coinage of Bengal (1886, 1873); Early Sassanian Inscriptions (1868);
According to Dilip Chakrabarti, a professor of South Asian archaeology at the Cambridge University, the inscription is an evidence of historical record keeping tradition in ancient India because Rudradaman otherwise would not have known the names of people involved in the project in 4th-century BCE, or who later worked on the water reservoir in ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us more ways to reach us
These edicts were deciphered by British archaeologist and historian James Prinsep. [6] The inscriptions revolve around a few recurring themes: Ashoka's conversion to Buddhism, the description of his efforts to spread dhamma, his moral and religious precepts, and his social and animal welfare program. The edicts were based on Ashoka's ideas on ...
George W. Kirkman's 1938 historical map of pre-1860 Los Angeles County shows locations of "Gabrieleño" villages marked with generic "Indian teepees." Toypurina, José and two other leaders of the rebellion, Chief Tomasajaquichi of Juvit village and a man named Alijivit, from the nearby village of Jajamovit, were put on trial for the 1785 ...
James Prinsep (1799–1840), an Anglo-Indian scholar and antiquary who started the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, published a paper in the Journal in 1837 by a Dr. William Bland [12] of H.M.S. Wolf, which stated that he had made a facsimile of all that remained in any way perceptible on the slab. [13]
Times reporter James Rainey surveys the fire-ravaged neighborhood in Malibu's Carbon Canyon where he grew up. He hoped to find his old home still standing. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)