Sharma, Personal and Geographical Names in the Gupta Inscriptions (PGN)
PGN is Tej Ram Sharma's Personal and Geographical Names in the Gupta Inscriptions (1978) —
an onomastic study that registers the personal and place names occurring in Gupta-period
inscriptions, each located by its inscription and line. A specialist epigraphical name-index.
At a glance
| Code | PGN (source in csl-orig/v02/pgn; no separate repo) |
| Full title | Personal and Geographical Names in the Gupta Inscriptions |
| Author | Tej Ram Sharma |
| Year / size | 1978 · ~378 pages |
| Type | Onomastic index (inscriptions) |
| Source | csl-orig/v02/pgn/ |
| Open | Basic · List · Advanced · Mobile |
| Data | Downloads |
| csl-doc | pgn.rst |
When to use it
Reach for PGN to locate and study a name from the Gupta inscriptions. Pair it with the
Indian Epigraphical Glossary (IEG) for the technical terms. For word meanings use
Monier-Williams (MW).
Reading an entry
Each entry is a name (<k1>) with the inscriptions and lines in which it appears. The first
entry (csl-orig/v02/pgn/pgn.txt):
<L>1<pc>020<k1>gupta<k2>gupta
1. {%Gupta:%}¦ (No. 1, L. 28; No. 21, L. 4; No. 22, L. 1; No. 47,
L. 1; No. 49, L. 1; No. 50, L. 1; No. 51, L. 2, L. 4; …):
| In the source | Meaning |
|---|---|
{%Gupta:%} | the name (search key <k1>) |
No. 1, L. 28 | an inscription number and line where the name occurs |
| the list | every attestation, by inscription and line |
See Data Formats for the markup reference.
What makes it distinctive
- Names from the Gupta epigraphic corpus, with full attestations.
See also
- Indian Epigraphical Glossary (IEG) — terms from inscriptions
- Monier-Williams (MW) · the full catalog
- csl-doc pgn.rst