ncert history 12 : 2

James princes decipheres

Kharosthi and Brahmi

Piyadassi means

pleasant to behold

Study of writing is called

Paleography

which jatsaka inclues the plight of subjects of a wicked king

Gandatindu jataka

Transplantation is used in cultivation of

Paddy

gahapati means

owner of household

vellalar means

landowners

Uzhavar means

ploughmen

Adimai means

slaves

shrenis were

merchant guilds

votive inscription are

recor gifts made to religious institutions

masattuvan means

successful merchant

setthis and satthvahas means

enormously rich merchants

preplus meaning in greek

sailing around

erythream meaning in greek

red sea

1st god coins were issued by

kushanas in 1st century ad

james princep deciphered brahmi in

1938

pativedakas were

reports to the kings

Paddy transplantation; urbanisation in the Ganga valley; mahajanapadas; punch-marked coins

(c. 600-500 BCE)

Rulers of Magadha consolidate power

(c. 500-400 BCE)

Invasion of Alexander of Macedon

(c. 327-325 BCE)

Accession of Chandragupta Maurya

(c. 321 BCE)

Reign of Asoka

(c. 272/268-231 BCE)

End of the Mauryan empire

(c. 185 BCE)

Indo-Greek rule in the northwest; Cholas, Cheras and Pandyas in south India; Satavahanas in the Deccan

(c. 200-100 BCE)

Shaka (peoples from Central Asia) rulers in the northwest; Roman trade; gold coinage

(c. 100 BCE-200 CE)

Accession of Kanishka

(c. 78 CE

Earliest inscriptional evidence of land grants by Satavahana and Shaka rulers

(c. 100-200 CE)

Beginning of Gupta rule

(c. 320 CE)

Samudragupta

(c. 335-375 CE)

Chandragupta II; Vakatakas in the Deccan

(c. 375-415 CE)

Rise of the Chalukyas in Karnataka and of the Pallavas in Tamil Nadu

(c. 500-600 CE)

Harshavardhana, king of Kanauj; Chinese pilgrim Xuan Zang comes in search of Buddhist texts

(c. 606-647 CE)

Arabs conquer Sind

(c. 712 CE)

Founding of the Asiatic Society (Bengal)

(1784)

Colin Mackenzie collects over 8,000 inscriptions in Sanskrit and Dravidian languages

(1810s)

Decipherment of Asokan Brahmi by James Prinsep

(1838)

Alexander Cunningham publishes a set of Asokan inscriptions

(1877)

First issue of Epigraphia Carnatica, a journal of south Indian inscriptions

(1886)

First issue of Epigraphia Indica

(1888)

D.C. Sircar publishes Indian Epigraphy and Indian Epigraphical Glossary

(1965-66)