Question

where is the largest epigraphic collection in India​

Answer 1

The earliest traces of epigraphy in the Indian Subcontinent are found in the undeciphered inscriptions of the Indus Valley Civilization (Indus script), which date back to the early 3rd millennium BC. Two other important archeological classes of symbols are found from the 1st millennium BCE, Megalithic Graffiti Symbols and symbols on punch-marked coins, though most scholars do not consider these to constitute fully linguistic scripts, and their semiotic functions are not well understood. The earliest deciphered epigraphic inscriptions of significant length are the Edicts of Ashoka of the 3rd century BCE, written in forms of Prakrit in the Brahmi script. samanam inscriptions in South India written in Tamil-Brahmi, Bhattiprolu alphabet and the Kadamba alphabet are also of relatively early date. Short Brahmi inscriptions on potsherds from the 4th century BCE have been reported from the ruins of Anuradhapura and potsherds containing Tamil brahmi script found in kodumanal, porunthalur and palani dated 5th century BCE, Burial of Adichanallur, Tamil Nadu were dated from 1800BCE to 300BCE found with graffiti and Tamil brahmi script.


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Answer 2

a script of Gop-Temple. script is old brahmi, language is gujrati. time is near to BC 100 according to carban dating test .

The second picture is of Kateshwar- siyot caves in Gujarat-Kutch, in which the old Brahmi, and the old Devanagari script are written. time BC 300. Xuanzang visited this place in 650 AD, and he reported that one Buddhist caves was located near the mouth of Indus river.

The remaining photographs, Those are Hero-stones (પાળીયા- पाळीया) which are belong to Khavda region of Gujarat, where the insciprtion can read well, and some of them have a record of 10 to 17 Vikram Samvat. some of them are, before the Vikram Era, we elaborated details of the those Hero-stone with national calendar, resulted all these Hero stones have been standing from BC 200 to 300. script of Hero stone are old gujrati (nagari) and dev-nagari and brahmi, and languages are gujrati. Many oldest Hero stones are lying in Gujrat, near kutch, near Porbandar, Near vallabhi. and five oldedst buddhist caves are in Gujarat. and 4 major sites of Harrpan cultures in gujrat.