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OSKAR VON HINUBER
BRAHMI INSCRIPTIONS ON THE HISTORY AND
CULTURE OF THE UPPER INDUS VALLEY*
No inscription was noticed by Aurei STEIN during his first
journey in the Gilgit area on his way to Central Asia in the year
1900, nor was any epigraph brought to his notice, when he passed
through this region again in the year 1913 (STEIN 1944: 16) and
in June 1931, when he saw some of the Gilgit Manuscripts as the
first European. It was only a decade later that A.W. REDPATH,
then Assistant Political Agent in Gilgit, informed Aurei STEIN
about the Hatun inscription, the longest Sanskrit inscription
found in North Pakistan so far, and, in the same year (1941),
STEIN learned from G.H. EMERSON about inscriptions dis-
covered near Chilas. In spite of his high age, STEIN undertook
one of his last journeys bringing him to Chilas in August 1942,
* I should like to express my sincere thanks to M.G. FUSSMAN, College
de France, at whose invitation I gave a lecture at Paris on "Buddhist
Brahmi Inscriptions from the Upper Indus Valley" on 21th March 1985.
This article is the modified and enlarged version of the first part of that
lecture.
The second part is published in this volume under the title: "Buddhisti-
sche Inschriften aus dem Tal des oberen Indus".
The inscriptions have been counted in current numbers: nos. 1—67 in
this article, nos. 68—109 in "Buddhistische Inschriften" contained in this
volume, nos. 110—147 in v. Hiniiber 1986.
The "siJ^w-symbol" (v. HINUBER 1983a: 272; ROTH 1986; SAN-
DER 1986) at the beginning of some inscriptions has been marked as #.
A^saras of doubtful reading have been put into parentheses: ( ); filled
gaps have been marked by brackets [ ]; cancelled a%saras( }. A missing
vowel or consonant part of an a&sara is indicated by a dot.
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BRAHMI INSCRIPTIONS ON THE HISTORY AND
CULTURE OF THE UPPER INDUS VALLEY*
No inscription was noticed by Aurei STEIN during his first
journey in the Gilgit area on his way to Central Asia in the year
1900, nor was any epigraph brought to his notice, when he passed
through this region again in the year 1913 (STEIN 1944: 16) and
in June 1931, when he saw some of the Gilgit Manuscripts as the
first European. It was only a decade later that A.W. REDPATH,
then Assistant Political Agent in Gilgit, informed Aurei STEIN
about the Hatun inscription, the longest Sanskrit inscription
found in North Pakistan so far, and, in the same year (1941),
STEIN learned from G.H. EMERSON about inscriptions dis-
covered near Chilas. In spite of his high age, STEIN undertook
one of his last journeys bringing him to Chilas in August 1942,
* I should like to express my sincere thanks to M.G. FUSSMAN, College
de France, at whose invitation I gave a lecture at Paris on "Buddhist
Brahmi Inscriptions from the Upper Indus Valley" on 21th March 1985.
This article is the modified and enlarged version of the first part of that
lecture.
The second part is published in this volume under the title: "Buddhisti-
sche Inschriften aus dem Tal des oberen Indus".
The inscriptions have been counted in current numbers: nos. 1—67 in
this article, nos. 68—109 in "Buddhistische Inschriften" contained in this
volume, nos. 110—147 in v. Hiniiber 1986.
The "siJ^w-symbol" (v. HINUBER 1983a: 272; ROTH 1986; SAN-
DER 1986) at the beginning of some inscriptions has been marked as #.
A^saras of doubtful reading have been put into parentheses: ( ); filled
gaps have been marked by brackets [ ]; cancelled a%saras( }. A missing
vowel or consonant part of an a&sara is indicated by a dot.
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