About the Book: A Source Book of the Early buddhist Inscriptions of Amaravati
A Source Book of the Early Buddhist Inscriptions of Amaravatl presents the
available corpus of the donative epigraphs, recovered during the last two
centuries, from the early Indian Buddhist monastic site of Amaravati in the
south¬eastern Deccan, for systematic analysis and categorization of the
inscriptional evidence thereof in historical perspective. Analysis of the data
from the epigraphs in the way it is done in this study helps understand the
social, religious, cultural and economic roots of the early Buddhist art of
Amaravati. Thus the artistic heritage of the early Buddhist Amaravati, which had
been