D.C. Sircar
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The book presents the English translation of the inscriptions of Mauryan Emperor Asoka, a great follower of the Buddha. The objective of the book is to carry the message of Asoka’s edicts to the masses. Although the translation closely follows the texts of the epigraphic records, it has been made simple so that it is easily comprehended by the readers. Rediscovered by scholars and researchers, these inscriptions form a vital part of Indian history. The ...
The present book is an authoritative and authentic source for the study of Indian coins. It not only describes the coins but also studies them critically in all their aspects. In describing the features of a particular class of coins from the standpoint of standard, style and fabric or in discussing the significance of the numismatic terms, the author has utilized the literary data which have a bearing on them.
Here one finds an embarrass de richesses in a comprehensive dictionary of technical expressions found in documents embracing nearly 2000 years in time and the entire Indian sub-continent in space and written in a variety of languages.
The most significant of India's contributions of the civilization of the world was made in the ancient period. Unfortunately, the history of this glorious epoch, which is an interesting chapter in the annals of human civilization, was lost, and we have been reconstructing it on the basis of information gathered from various sources. Of these, epigraphy is the most important, since the major part of what we already know about ancient India is derived from the ...
The holy places, associated with the Mother Goddess and spread over various parts of the Indian subcontinent, have been popular pilgrim spots far a long time. According to same late Tantric texts ascribable to Eastern India, the number of such Saktatirthas is fifty one, and the present monograph is a dissertation on the origin and development of this conception. Thus it is, at the same time, the study of a number of Tantric and other texts as well as of certain ...
Most of the outstanding writings on the historical geography of ancient India, such as those of F.E. Pargiter, S.N. Majumdar Sastri, N.L. Dey, H.C. Raychaudhuri and B.C. Law, were produced in Calcutta, and the tradition is maintained by Prof. D.C. Sircar through his works entitles Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature and Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India. While the first of these is a general treatment of the evidence of early ...
The earlier chapters of the present volume deal with a large number of topics relating to kingship, landlordism (sometimes mistaken as feudalism), tenancy, royal charters, Pancayat system, etc. Some of the following chapters contain discussions on certain royal officers (also continued in one of the appendices), the functions of some of them or their departments, a few aspects of the judicial system, some land measures and taxes, etc. The third group of topics ...