South-India in Old Javanese and Sanskrit inscriptions

Bibliographic Data

ID2877416
AuthorsHimansu Bhusan Sarkar (1. [email protected], corresponding author)
Year1969
Volume125
Issue2
Pages193-206
Publication date1969-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/22134379-90002843
OpenAlexW2094687389
LanguageEN
Citations received7

The art of writing in many places of South-East Asia is generally believed to have been derived, to use a generic term, from southern India. Epigraphists have designated this script as 'Vengi', be known in native parlance as Aksara Buddha or Buddhist writing. In broad terms, the phrase signifies pre-Muslim writing.2 An episode, however, in the history of the Old-Javanese palaeography was the introduction of the Pre-N?gar? script in the late eighth century A.D. The script has been used in the Sanskrit inscriptions of Kalasan,3 K?lurak,4 Plaosan,5 Sajivan,6 etc. It also emerges in the script of Sumatra and Cambodia for a brief spell of time, presumably due to the influence of the P?la monarchs of Bengal and the Sailendra monarchs of the Malayo-Indo nesian world. The Pre-N?gar? script of the 8th century and the

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · BENGAL · Buddhism · Gautama Buddha · Geography · Literature · Palaeography · Sanskrit · Sociology · South asia · Spell · Sumerian · Writing system · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · History

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