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Macedonian Month-Name in a Brahmi Inscription

By Harit Krishna Deb

Vol. 8 · No. 1March - 1932pp. 117–120English
Brahmi Inscription Analysis

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  • “The month named Gurppiya® doubtless stands for the Macedonian month, (orpiaeus, corresponding to August or September.”
  • “Our record thus proves the use of Macedonian month-names 10 the Meathura region, at least, ૩ early as the reign of Huvishka.”

Works cited in this article

  1. Cunningham, Book of Indian Eras, p. 30 and Table VII
  2. JRAS., 1012, pp. 00311

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People

  • Huvishka
  • Vasishka
  • Kanishka 9
  • Kanishka the second
  • Vasigthiputra Pulumiyi

Places

Texts & works

  • Brahmi inscription
  • Kharosthi inscriptions

Dynasties, sects & groups

  • Kushan
  • Kushin

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Vol. 8 · No. 1
1–20Sasanka, king of BengalRadha Govinda Basak21–29The Eastern CalukyasDhirendra Chandra Ganguly30–42The Jaina School of AstronomySukumar Ranjan Das43–48Some Cosmological Ideas of the JainasAmulya Chandra Sen49–53Domicile of the Author of the Bhagavata PuranaAmar Nath Roy54–63Studies in the KautiliyaNarendra Nath Law64–84Early Vritism and NarayanIya WorshipMrinal Das Gupta85–92The Gupta EraDhirendra Nath Mukherji93–110A Buddhist Manuscript at GilgitNalinaksha Dutt111–113A Quotation from the HrdayadarpanaP. K. Gode113–116A Note on a remark of Yuan ChwangRamashankar Tripathi117–120Macedonian Month-Name in a Brahmi InscriptionHarit Krishna DebCurrent article121–164Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Valley CivilizationNarendra Nath Law165–220The English Translation of the KautiliyaNarendra Nath Law221–223The Soma or Sauma Sect of the SaivasChintaharan Chakravarti224–227KasakrtsnaKshitish Chandra Chatterjee228–230Nalanda Stone Inscription of YasovarmadevaA. K. Mrithyunjayan231–240Select Contents of Oriental Journals

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