| app. | appendix |
| approx. | approximately |
| Arab. | Arabic |
| arch. | archeological |
| Ardh. | Ardhamagadhi |
| Ass. | Assamese |
| astr. | astronomical |
| Aves. | Avestan |
| b. | born |
| Bad. | Badaga |
| Bah. | Bahasa Indonesia |
| Bal. | Balinese |
| BCE | before the Common Era |
| Beng. | Bengali |
| bot. | botanical |
| Braj. | Brajbhasha |
| Burm. | Burmese |
| c. | circa |
| CE | Common Era |
| cent./cents. | century/centuries |
| ch./chs. | chapter/chapters |
| Chn. | Chinese |
| cit. | cited by |
| comm. | commentary |
| crit. ed. | critical edition |
| d. | died |
| dir. | director |
| diss. | dissertation |
| Drav. | Dravidian |
| ed./eds. | editor, edited by/editors |
| ET | English translation |
| et al. | and others |
| etym. | etymology |
| f.… |
General Abbreviations (295 words)
Cite this page
“General Abbreviations”, in: Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Religions of the Indigenous People of South Asia Online, Marine Carrin (Editor-in-Chief), Michel Boivin, Gérard Toffin, Paul Hockings, Raphaël Rousseleau, Tanka Subba, Harald Lambs-Tyche (Section Editors). Consulted online on 09 May 2021 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2665-9093_BERO_SIM_032232>
First published online: 2019
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