Re: Inscription Kuru

Nina,

Although I am not an expert in the Ashokan inscriptions, I have had a
hobby interest in them for several years --and can read the script
fairly well.

If you could send me a legible (digital) copy of any of your
photographs of the text, I could produce both an Ashokan transcription
and a Romanization (or a Thai script transcription if you wanted one,
for that matter) and post it to the web.

The level of "lexical support" for the Ashokan inscriptions is so high
that just about anyone can attempt their own translation of the
materials --these have been much more closely and carefully studied by
Western scholars than any Pali text (that I know of).

I believe that Lance Cousins knows much more than I do about the
existing translations --and their relative adequacy (or inadequacy).

L.C., I had the impression that the Ashokan inscriptions are (or were)
one of your major research interests?

E.M.