ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 1570
http://www.s-gabriel.org/1570
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28 May 1999
From: Alan Terlep 

Greetings,

Here's the information we found on Indian names.

Because India is so vast, it's impossible to make any generalizations
about Indian names that would be applicable for all Indian regions,
periods, and social classes.  We recommend that you read some books on
Indian history so that you can narrow your search down to a particular
time and place within medieval India.  History books need to be used
with care as a source for names, but it is likely that a history book
would be a good starting point to do some name research.

If you want to go beyond this, we found a number of books that
document inscriptions from India; the inscriptions include many names.
Some of these collections cover inscriptions from before the period of
the SCA, but we've included the whole list at the bottom.

One of our members extracted the women's names from one of these
books--that information is on the Web at

http://www.panix.com/~mittle/names/tangwystyl/india/tirupati_f.html

Juliana de Luna, Talorgen nei Wrguist, Tecangl Bach, Walraven van
Nijmegen, Tangwystl verch Morgant Glasvryn, Arval Benicoeur, and Talan
Gwynek contributed to this letter.

We hope this is helpful.  If we can be of further assistance, please
let us know.

In service,
Alan Fairfax
Academy of S. Gabriel

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Corpus inscriptionum indicarum.  Calcutta, Archaeological Surveyof
India, 1888.

Asoka, King of Magadha, fl. 259 B.C.  Inscriptions of Asoka. New
edition by E. Hultzsch. With 55 plates.  Delhi, Indological Book
House, 1969.  Corpus inscriptionum indicarum ; v. 1

Konow, Sten, 1867-1948.  Kharoshthi inscriptions, with the exception
of those of Asoka.  Calcutta, Government of India Central Publication
Branch, 1929.  Corpus inscriptionum indicarum; v. 2, pt. 1

Luders, Heinrich, 1869-1943.  Bharhut inscription / edited by H.
Luders ; revised by E. Waldschmidt and M.A. Mehendale.  Ootacamund :
Government Epigraphist for India, 1963 Corpus inscriptionum Indicarum
; v. 2, pt. 2.

Inscriptions of the early Gupta kings / revised by Devadatta
Ramakrishna Bhandarkar ; edited by Bahadurchand Chhabra & ... New
Delhi : Archaeological Survey of India, 1981.  Corpus inscriptionum
Indicarum, v. 3

Inscriptions of the early Gupta kings and their successors :
supplement to Fleet's Corpus inscriptionum Indicarum,... 1st ed
Varanasi : Banaras Hindu University, 1971 Banaras Hindu
University. Dept. of Ancient Indian History, Culture and
Archaeology. Monographs ; 6 Corpus inscriptionum Indicarum, v. 3

Mirashi, Vasudev Vishnu, 1893- Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi era
/ Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi.  Ootacamund : Government Epigraphist for
India, 1955.  Corpus inscriptionum indicarum ; v. 4.

Mirashi, Vasudev Vishnu, 1893- Inscriptions of the Vakatakas / edited
by Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi Ootacamund : Government Epigraphist for
India, 1963 Corpus inscriptionum Indicarum ; v.5

Mirashi, Vasudev Vishnu, 1893- Inscriptions of the Silaharas / edited
by Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi.  New Delhi : Archaeological Survey of
India, 1977.  Corpus inscriptionum indicarum ; v. 6.

Inscriptions of the Paramaras, Chandellas, Kachchapaghatas, and two
minor dynasties / edited by Harihar Vitthal Trivedi.  New Delhi :
Archaeological Survey of India, 19-- Corpus inscriptionum indicarum ;
v. 7, pt. 1-2.

Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica.  Calcutta : Office of the Superintendent of
Govt. Printing ; New York : Westermann, [1909?-1950?]  Supplement to:
Epigraphia Indica and record of the Archaeological Survey of India,
1907-1938, and: Epigraphia Indica (Archaeological Survey of India :
1939).  Continued by: Epigraphia Indica. Arabic and Persian supplement

Singh, K. Suresh (Kumar Suresh), 1935- Communities, segments,
synonyms, surnames and titles / K.S. Singh.  Delhi : Anthropological
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Singh, K. Suresh (Kumar Suresh), 1935- People of India ; v. 8.