Talk:Early Indian epigraphy

message: Not sure what the article should be split into, as all the examples and references relate to India. The article itself stemmed from a need for links in several FA articles on the history and architecture of India. —Mattisse (Talk) 20:28, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps this one needs changing also? Indian copper plate inscriptions  —Mattisse (Talk) 18:18, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article split 

message: The writing on the Kanheri caves inscription is not Brāhmī but a later development - probably Gupta Script. mahaabaala (talk) 16:53, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kanheri Caves Image 

message: Megasthenes' comment, viz. 
*Explicit statements by Megasthenes c. 300 BCE that Indians had no writing
was a reference to soldiers in camp and not to Indians in general. in any case, a very small percentage in any ancient population knew how to write. I have removed this point. If anyone wants to re-insert it kindly do so with explicit inline references. 
Similarly, the reference to Panini's work making no sense in written form is a POV comment. All ancient sanskrit works were written to be memorized, whether they were to be put to paper or not. The fact that Panini's grammar is still used in written form says otherwise.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Madmonk11 (talk • contribs) 03:31, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The early Brahmi script evidencehttp://hindu.com/2005/02/17/stories/2005021704471300.htm at Adichanalloor Says that the site is 1500 BCE to 500 BCE which is prior to Megasthenes reach in India. Dr. Satyamurthy, however, proposes that the script found inside the urn may belong to circa 5th century B.C. According to him, this was based on "preliminary thermo-luminescence dating," which "takes the site to the period from 1500 B.C. to 500 B.C. So the script is also likely to be dated to 5th century B.C. even if we take the latest date into consideration. So we can delete that Line. Haribabu.P 10:49, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evidence of Late arrival of writing 

message: The Shankarpur copper-plate inscription was a specific article on a specific record of importance for north India during the 5th and 6th centuries. This article is a general one about Indian Epigraphy; it seems to serve no useful purpose moving this article here. I suggest moving it back as an independent article. --Shirazibustan (talk) 14:02, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  General and specific 

message: The dating of the south India potshards to pre-Asoka has now been discredited. Conningham has form with this sort of announcement. He also recently announced "the earliest Buddhist shrine" at Lumbini on extremely flimsy evidence that could not support such a conclusion. There was nothing at all to identify the finds as either a. a shrine, or b. Buddhist. Jayarava (talk) 22:09, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, see Talk:Tamil-Brahmi#Table. The pre-Ashokan theory is mainly pushed by fanatic Tamil nationalists whose goal is to win the equivalent of a dick-measuring contest against the hated North Indians, an intra-Indian propaganda war (make no mistake, I loathe their Hindutva religious fanatic enemies just the same, if not more); all those POV-warring assholes need to be ruthlessly and mercilessly blocked and the most vulnerable articles semi-protected – it's mainly the fault of these zealots that our coverage of Indological topics is particularly unreliable and full of crap: Wikipedia at its worst. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 19:35, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Tamil Writing 

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