Professor Buhler’s Indische Palaeographie, consisting of 96 pages with 9 plates of alphabetical characters and numerals and 8 tables of explanatory transliteration of them, was originally published in 1896. An English version of this was prepared by Professor Buhler himself; the manuscript was on its way to the press at the time his death. J.F. Fleet, with great difficulties, recovered the MS. and got is printed in Indian Antiquary. 1904, in the form of an Appendix. But it was the text without the plates and tables. And that had been the only form in which it has so far been available to our students and scholars. It is a matter of great satisfaction that for the first time the complete English version of Buhler’s monumental work, along with the plates and tables, in its proper book-form is published. Page-references of the German original are indicated in square brackets along with Fleet’s valuable introduction to the text.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Georg Buhler
Georg Buhler was born on 19 July 1837 at Borstel in Hanover. He graduated in Oriental Languages and Archaeology in 1858, studied Sanskrit at Paris, London and Oxford and became an eminent Orientalist. He became Professor of Oriental Languages at Elphinstone College, Bombay in 1863, Superintendent of Sanskrit Studies, Poona in 1866; Educational Inspector, N. Division, Bombay Presidency, 1868,1872. He edited many Sanskrit texts and discovered more than 5000 MSS., which the Indian Government distributed among British universities and various Collections. He left India in 1880. He, being a man of many-sided ability, gave his attention to ancient inscriptions and epigraphy. He brought out with Sir R. West, A Digest of Hindu Law, wrote a Sanskrit Primer, published a Glossary of the oldest Prakrit dictionary, collaborated in the series of Sacred Books of the East; translated the Laws of Manu. He also edited an Encyclopaedia of Indo-Aryan Philology and contributed his Indische Palaeographiem 1896. He passed away in 1898.
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