His path to becoming one of the most esteemed
epigraphists - a scholar of stone inscriptions - on Cambodia was one of 'following a trail of pebbles on the road', his 75-year-old widow, Dominique Jacques, told The Post.
His training as an
epigraphist and Sanskritist was sound though his perspective as a historian was constrained by a number of untested dogmas of the Samshodhan Mandala school of which he was the member-secretary.
Angkor also mobilized engineers, art historians, and
epigraphists, concentrating in one geographically delimitated zone into a sort of scholarly microcosm where most of the disciplines covered by the school were present.
He was also an expert
epigraphist (a student of Athenian documentary inscriptions) and more than competent in his knowledge of prehistoric Greece.
Er war vorher--seit 1886 -
Epigraphist to the Government of Madras sowie Examiner of Sanskrit and Fellow of the University of Madras, zog aber 1887 aus Familiengrunden nach Bangalore und lernte im indischen Suden Tamil, Telugu und Kannada.
In 1835, the
epigraphist Kyriakos Pittakis recorded the existence of numerous Ionic capitals preserved in the walls of the adjacent church of the Agia Kyra Kandili, the Holy Lady of the Lamp.
Anil and Sarath drive into the countryside to ask for help from Sarath's former professor, a now-blind
epigraphist living in the "Grove of Ascetics," a Buddhist forest monastery.
Then there is Palipana, an elderly, blind
epigraphist, once Sarath's academic mentor, who has retired from the world and lives alone with his damaged niece in an abandoned forest monastery, a sort of secular monk or even saint.
Mirashi Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum: Inscrtptions of the Kalachuri Chedi Era, Ootacamund: Government
Epigraphist for India, 1955, Vol.
Avanzini, a South Arabian historian and
epigraphist (pp.
The
epigraphist and iconographer explained that the 40- by 22- by 22-centimeter statue, intended to be placed in temples, originated in northern India and gradually spread further southward.
Palipana is an
epigraphist who loves runes and graffiti etched in stone, and who is honoured after his death by having a "yard-long sentence" of his wisdom (107) chiselled into rock where it is lapped by water.
The site was surveyed in the 1880s by Italian archaeologist and
epigraphist, Federico Halbherr who discovered the Code of Gortyn - the first European law code.
