Nalanda and Its Epigraphic Material

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Item Code: NAK895
Author: Hirananda Sastri
Publisher: Sri Satguru Publications
Language: English
Edition: 2015
ISBN: 8170300134
Pages: 146 (83 B/W Illustrations)
Cover: Hardcover
Other Details 11.0 inch X 8.0 inch
Weight 670 gm
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Book Description
Preface

Of All Buddhist sites excavated by the Archaeological Survey, Nalanda has proved the most prolific as regards inscriptions. Although the results of no complete account was prepared before Mr. Page the officer responsible for the bulk of the excavation retired from the survey in 1932. To remedy this defect, so far as the numerous seals, copper plates and stone inscriptions are concerned, the work was happily entrusted to the then government Epigraphist, Dr. Hirananda Sastri who brought to bear on this task his ripe scholarship and his intimate knowledge of Nalanda. Dr. Sastri, however, retired in 1933 before he could give finishing touches to his work and this task fell on his successor Dr. Chakravarti, who had necessarily to verify all the readings from the original material at Nalanda, in course of which considerable difference of readings were brought out. Minor emendations have made in Dr. Sastri’s texts, but wherever it was felt necessary the points of difference are indicated in footnotes by Dr. Chakravarti as Editor.

 

Contents
Introduction  
Prefatory Remarks 1
Situation 1
Nalanda and its etymology 3
Bargaon 4
Sari chak 5
Padmasambhava and Nalanda 6
Tibetan Accounts of Nalandas 7
Chinese Accounts Nalanda 8
Nalanda in Jaina Literature 8
Nalanda in Buddhist literature 10
Reference in Brahmanical literature 14
Description by Hsuan Tsang and I tsing 14
Nalanda in different epochs 19
Remains of Nalanda  
Structural Remains 20
Clay Seals  
General survey of 26
Monastic Seals 36
Janapada Seals 45
Seals of Offices 49
Village seals 54
Miscellaneous Seals 55
Royal Scale 64
Inscriptions 72
Sculptures 113
Index 121

 

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