Epigraphia Indica / South Indian Inscriptions

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Family: Epigraphy · Custodian: Archaeological Survey of India

The standard published series of South Asian temple-inscription and copper-plate editions (South Indian Inscriptions; Epigraphia Indica), used for dated rate/price quotations.

Citing conjectures (7)

Chola CPI
Copper holds the deeds so the leaves don't have to
The land grant is a census of the oral archive
Hero-stones and śāstra split the map between them
The court poet works in stone and leaf at once
The deed swells with the supply of poets
The temple ledger is a library catalogue in stone