Inscriptions of Early Kadamba For brousers not supported frames (use right button to open pages in new windows, don't forget to install our font before) THE INTRODUCTIONIt is offered to your attention Internet version of a "hypertext publication ofEarly Kadambas epigraphy". An occasion for the reference to this inscriptions was theinterest of the contents of inscriptions giving a huge volume of the extremely importantinformation about different aspects of history and culture of the early South Indiansociety. Due to the existing publications (by G.S. Gai, K.V. Ramesh and B.G. Gopal), thisdatabank enables to be based on all (or most part) known information about theepigraphical sources, to use in researches the modern, including the quantitative methods.Completeness of information (naturally, relative) makes present this databank quite usefulfor wide range of specialists in different fields of Indian history, though it prepared,mainly, as a sample of construction of a "hypertext publication" of Indianepigraphy. The basic purpose of the present database - creation of compact systematic and critical(with variants in deciphering, except for the obvious mistakes) model of publication ofall known epigraphical sources, which would be accessible to the user having the minimalexperience of work on the computer, not requiring special software. It is necessary forviewing our base, only, the installation of our font: Shri3 (downloadin zip).For those who have problems in our font installation we prepare variant in .pdf formatwhich can be send by request (mail to: indepigr@yandex.ru).The long research of Indian epigraphy has resulted us in necessity of creation just suchdatabases. The inscriptions, among other sources on a history and culture of India, occupyespecially important place. Different periods of history of the country, separate regionsof India in the certain chronological periods are restored extremely under the informationfrom epigraphical sources and archaeology. But the part from this huge amount of sourcesis not published yet. And, what is the most essential, the work of researcher withepigraphy is strongly complicated because these publications dispersed between the severalall-Indian and regional journals, central and local special publications, part of which isa bibliographic rarity today. Down to the present time, the sets of new findings arepublished in regional publishing houses, by regional epigraphical organisations andmuseums and not are always accessible. This situation does not rescue by reprinting of themost known publications. Only electronic form, in our opinion, not only enables to collectin the common form and to systematise all complex of epigraphy, to ensure a wide circle ofthe researcher with the complete and versatile information, but also opens a way to usemodern methods of research. One of the basic purposes of creation present database isinvitation to wide co-operation in this area (not so in e-publication but in transalation,research, preparation the publications). In the systematisation of inscriptions we wereguided by one basic principle - by names of kings. In their genealogy we used the schemeincluded in G.S.Gai publication (see genealogy andchronology of Kadamba kings in table). Starting from list of kings (if your browsersupported frames - here, if not - here), you can easy find the needed text. Before the text of inscription placed brief information about the text and itspublications, then you can find five buttons. "Translation"linked to russian translation of inscription, map- to the map, where marked the findplaces of inscriptions by red circles, commentariesand variants , where you can find all variants of readings (here differentopinions of researchers can be supplied at any time in the future) and buttons for Indexesof personal and geographicalnames (which we plane to use, as the common for different collections). Inthe left corner of every page with the text of inscription you can find two buttons in theform of arrow (linked to the next or previous text of inscription), button "main page" (where you can findabbreviations used in publication, links to our papers in russian and in english, andtable of genealogy and chronology of Early Kadambas) and "index"- linked to the list of this king inscriptions. The given base does not include the images of inscriptions for several reasons. Thepreparation and publication of the set of qualitative images, which could be used indecipherment, is the special work. Such work is important, but more reasonable itspublication on CD-ROM.This publication of "hypertext databank" only the second our experience in theelectronical critical publication of Indian epigraphy. In this connection we are ready totake into account all recommendations, remarks and wishes of the users. Besides wecontinue to work in the field of a computerisation Indian epigraphy and are ready tovarious forms of co-operation in this area with all interested organisations and persons,especially in discussions about the interpretation of inscriptions. All responsesand offers send directly to author of this publication - Lielukhine D.N. (indepigr@yandex.ru).Unfortunately, but I cannot yet test the publication on oldMac system and cannot guarantee other functions (on my computer - simple search, printingetc. - are normal).
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