The Language of the Kharosthi Documents from Chinese Turkestan

The Language of the Kharosthi Documents from Chinese Turkestan
Title The Language of the Kharosthi Documents from Chinese Turkestan PDF eBook
Author T. Burrow
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 147
Release 2011-06-30
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 1107629489

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The documents discussed in this 1937 book were found by Sir Aurel Stein at the turn of the twentieth century. Mr Burrow identified the language in which they are written and interpreted their meaning. He presents a grammar of the language, with a full discussion of its relation to other Indian languages.

History of Civilizations of Central Asia

History of Civilizations of Central Asia
Title History of Civilizations of Central Asia PDF eBook
Author Ahmad Hasan Dani
Publisher Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Pages 590
Release 1999
Genre Asia, Central
ISBN 9788120814080

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Non-Han Literature Along the Silk Road

Non-Han Literature Along the Silk Road
Title Non-Han Literature Along the Silk Road PDF eBook
Author Xiao Li
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 165
Release 2020-04-03
Genre History
ISBN 9811396442

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This volume includes outstanding scientific articles on documents written in ancient languages such as Tocharian, Sogdian, Khotanese, and Old Uyghur. Its chief aims are to contribute to the present state of research by adding essential findings on newly discovered historical documents; to present a multi-dimensional investigation of diverse aspects including the history, religion, art, literature, and social life along the Silk Road; and to outline potential future research directions for non-Han literature studies and inspire research into other aspects, such as economics and comparative studies.

Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan

Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan
Title Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan PDF eBook
Author Auguste M. Boyer
Publisher
Pages 448
Release 1920
Genre Inscriptions, Kharosthi
ISBN

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
Title Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 928
Release 1834
Genre Asia
ISBN

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Has appendices.

Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World

Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World
Title Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World PDF eBook
Author Andrew Wilson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 679
Release 2018
Genre Architecture
ISBN 019879066X

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In this volume, papers by leading Roman historians and archaeologists discuss trade within the Roman Empire and beyond its frontiers between c.100 BC and AD 350, focusing especially on the role of the Roman state in shaping the institutional framework for trade. As part of a novel interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the chapters address its myriad facets on the basis of broadly different sources of evidence - historical, papyrological, andarchaeological - demonstrating how collaborations with the elite holders of wealth within the empire fundamentally changed its political character in the longer term.

Three Gāndhārī Ekottarikāgama-type Sūtras

Three Gāndhārī Ekottarikāgama-type Sūtras
Title Three Gāndhārī Ekottarikāgama-type Sūtras PDF eBook
Author Mark Allon
Publisher University of Washington Press
Pages 384
Release 2001
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780295981857

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Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras continues the Gandharan Buddhist Texts studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection. It describes the text found on two fragments which constitute the lower part of a scroll and consists of the remnants of three sutras. All three sutras are relatively short and have an association with the number four, which suggests that they are from a Gandhar- Ekottarikagama, a collection of short discourses grouped according to numerical principles and one of the major collections of writings in the Buddhist canon. The first sutra records a discussion in which a brahman asks the Buddha four questions. The second su-tra, like the third, depicts the Buddha preaching to monks. The structure of this sutra is based on the four postures: walking, standing, sitting, and lying down. The Buddha's discourse in the third sutra concerns the four efforts (or abandonings). The book describes the condition of the scroll and its reconstruction; examines in detail the literary and textual background of the sutras, comparing them with other extant versions and parallels in other languages; and presents a transcription of the extant text, a reconstruction, and an English translation. It includes chapters on the paleography, orthography, phonology, and morphology of the text, and offers a detailed analytic commentary. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at http: //www.ebmp.org/