THE PALEOGRAPHY OF EARLY ODIA INSCRIPTIONS: AN OVERVIEW

This topic deals with an overview of earlier inscriptions found in a variety of styles and places of Odisha, a province of India. This particular field of investigation and research always inspired by two noted Epigraphists, one is James Prinsep, who was an English scholar and the founding editor of Asiatic Society of Bengal, popularly known as the father of Indian Epigraphy and the other one is an Indian scholar Rai Bahadur V. Venkayaya, father figure in Indian epigraphy who served as Chief Epigraphist of India from 1908 to 1912. Till date most of the scholars inspired by the footprints showed by both the scholars. In this paper the writer is trying to focus on some early Odia inscriptions with date, place, features or styles etc. with the help of available referral works.