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There is so much to read in this world......

....and remembering all that we read!!! Epigraphica Carnatica is a great contribution to the Indological studies. Rice, who was the Director of Archaeology in Mysore, has done the great job of copying and preserving the inscriptional texts. He is known as 'Shasana Pithamaha' of Mysore (now Karnataka). They Mysore University has published the revised editions in several volumes.

I have not read this book but will read it from cover to cover before i am much older!

SVO : The whole book is in 'old Kannada' ( Hale Gannada)... incompreshensible even for most people who know Kannada !

:( Oh God! No translations?! Drowned before I started?!

Ok I have read the abstract of the inscriptions which is in English. Extremely detailed , informative and a historian's dream. Filled with the desire to do something like this. It is such source material which provides the warp and weft of the weave of history. (Gave me inputs about the Hoysalas after 'Shantala' left off for which i was grateful.) Fascinating glimpse into days gone by. Caveat: Priceless inscriptions rescued from doom , some rescued others must have irrevocably lost. One of them was used as a stone to beat the washing on everyday, another was broken up to shore up a dam, yet another discovered at the bottom of a deserted well .... Tragic. Nilkanta Shastri...Wow!

Yes, Sumedha! Epigraphia Carnatica is a rich and original source of material from inscriptions. Thanks to Rice, who initiated the task of deciphering the scattered inscriptions they are available for study today. Luckily, the work was continued and more inscriptions found were desciphered and published in several volumes of EC. The Dept. of Archaeology, Govt. of Karnataka, has done an excellent job in publishing its annual reports detailing its work relating to temples, inscriptions etc., while the Mysore University the revised editions with English texts. They provide a wealth of original material needed much by historians and those interested in the study of history etc.