Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Gāndhārī Language and Literature

Gāndhārī Language and Literature
 



 
Gāndhārī is a northwestern Middle Indo‐Aryan language closely related to Sanskrit and Pali, attested in use from the third century BCE to the fifth century CE. It served as one of the most important vehicles for early Buddhist literature and was instrumental in the spread of Buddhism to China in the second century CE. Gāndhārī was also an important administrative language, attested in hundreds of coin legends and close to a thousand secular documents, and some examples of non‐Buddhist literary texts in Gāndhārī have likewise been found. In the course of their history, Gāndhārī language and literature spread from their homeland in the Peshawar valley as far as Mathura in the south, Bamiyan in the west, Luoyang in the east and Kucha in the north. Over the last fifteen years, the discovery of large numbers of new manuscript and epigraphical sources have greatly enriched our knowledge of Gāndhārī. Gandhari.org provides resources for those engaged in the study of Gāndhārī, including three reference works edited by Stefan Baums and Andrew Glass (A Dictionary of Gāndhārī, the Bibliography of Gāndhārī Studies and the Catalog of Gāndhārī Texts) and a comprehensive collection of source texts.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Nimogram: Pakistani Archaeological Site Images

Nimogram: Pakistani Archaeological Site Images
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The photographs in this collection are of an early Buddhist site, Nimogram, in the Swat District of Pakistan (map).

Its artifacts belong to the Gandhāran School of Art. Coins of the Kus̥ān̥a and Kus̥ān̥a-Sassanian periods excavated from the site are dated to the 2nd and 3rd century CE. Dr. Joan A. Raducha took the photos in the course of three trips to Pakistan. Two trips took place in 1979 and 1986 when she visited the site of Nimogram as well as the Swat Museum (that held the majority of items in galleries and in storerooms), and at the Taxila Museum (where a few items from Nimogram were on display). Her third trip was in 2010 when she visited the Taxila Museum storeroom where many of the objects were being held for safe-keeping after a car bomb damaged the Swat Museum in February 2008.

The site was excavated by staff of the Pakistan Department of Archaeology and Museums (DOAM) in 1967 and 1968 (Inayat-ur-Rehman. [1968]). The majority of objects found at the site are sculptures, stone and stucco that decorated the Buddhist monuments at the site. Minor finds from the site include materials used in construction, coins, and votive objects.

One of the great strengths of the Nimogram collection is that all the artifacts came from this single site. In the case of 312 objects, a record was made of the specific location of the find within the site. (Antiquities Register of Nimogram Excavations. [1967-68]) Thus the materials offer the possibility of gaining a better understanding of the decorative panorama of the site as well as an opportunity to study groups of sculptures made by the same hand or workshop, and the same motif interpreted by different hands.
Acknowledgements | How to search the site | History of Research on the Sacred Site of Nimogram | Site location | Distinctive Features of Nimogram Artifacts | Other objects from Nimogram | Select Bibliography
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The ABIA Project (Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology)

[First posted in AWOL 1 April 2012, updated 26 March 2014]

The ABIA Project (Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology)
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The ABIA project is a global network of scholars co-operating on an annotated bibliographic database for publishers covering South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology. The project was launched in 1997 at the initiative of the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands, in colloaboration with international scholars and Asian academic institutes. The project receives scientific support from UNESCO.
The database ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index is fully searchable and is freely accessible. Extracts from the database are also available in the form of printed bibliographies.

ABIA Index

The ABIA Index is a bibliographic database on South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology compiled by an international team of specialists. ABIA index supplies annotated and indexed entries on scholarly publications in Asian and European languages relating to prehistory, (proto)historical archaeology, art history (including modern art), material culture, epigraphy, palaeography, numismatics and sigillography. The ABIA Index continues the old Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology (ABIA).

History

The first issue of the Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology was published in Leiden in 1928 under the direction of the reknowned Sanskrit scholar and archaeologist, Prof. Jean Philippe Vogel. Its utility and importance made ABIA an impressive bibliographic series with a publication run over 50 years. Thanks to the support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), the Jan Gonda Foundation in Amsterdam and the Faculty of Arts of the Universiteit Leiden, ABIA was re-launched in 1997 as the globally networked ABIA Index.
ABIA Database
The ABIA Index covers publications on pre- and proto-historical archaeology, historical archaeology, ancient and modern art history, material culture, epigraphy, paleography, numismatics and sigillography of South and Southeast Asia and of culturally related regions: Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Tibet, the 'Silk Road', South China and the Pacific.

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The Index covers scholarly publications from 1996, ranging from survey works and monographs to articles in journals and monographs, reviews and PhD dissertations. The ABIA Index provides detailed bibliographic (with the original diacritics) as well as annotations for each of the publications covered. Indexes by author, subject, and geographic area further facilitate searches. While the database is in English, publications originate from a multi-lingual palette, ensuring both variety and broad scope.
The database is compiled by several international teams of specialists, each covering a fixed geographic area and well-defined set of bibliographic materials. Each office creates its own database. All data can be linked through a 'Search all' function.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Source Documents and Texts in South Asian Studies

Project South Asia, Source Documents and Texts in South Asian Studies
Project South Asia is a Web-based digital library for improving the study and teaching of South Asia, focusing especially on India and Pakistan. It creates and introduces an innovative materials and resource development program, designed to assist professors in advancing the study and teaching of South Asian history and culture across several disciplines and at various levels throughout the post-secondary curriculum. Read more about Project South Asia.

Project South Asia was initiated with grant funding from the National Security Education Program (NSEP) and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. We thank both NSEP and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for their financial support.

Project South Asia is an official Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library Associate Website

Ancient and Classical South Asia

Ashokan Rock and Pillar Edicts

Rock Edicts
Pillar Edicts

Dramatic Texts

Kalidasa's Shakuntala (1912 Arthur W. Ryder translation)
Harsha's Nagananda (Acts I-III)

Foreign Descriptions of South Asia

Greek and Roman Sources


Chinese

Xuan Zang's (Hiuen Tsiang's) Buddhist Records of the Western World
Inscriptions (Epigraphy)

Gupta Inscriptions
Samudragupta (335-375 CE)
Chandragupta II (375-415 CE)
Kumaragupta (415-455 CE)
Skandagupta (455-467 CE)
Budhagupta (467-497 CE)
Gupta-era Inscriptions
Aihole Inscription of Pulikeshin II (634-635 CE)
Basim Copper-Plates of Vindhyashakti II
Chiplun Copper-Plate Grant of Pulikeshin II (ca. 609-642 CE)
Hathigumpha Inscription of Kharavela of Kalinga
Garuda (Heliodorus) Pillar of Besnagar
Junagadh Rock Inscription of Rudradaman

Legal and Political Texts
The Laws of Manu (full 1886 G. Bühler translation)
Kautilya's Arthashastra (full 1915 Shamasastry text)
Literature

The Mahabharata
Source: The Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Condensed into English verse by Romesh C. Dutt. New York: Dutton, 1910.
The Ramayana
Source: The Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Condensed into English verse by Romesh C. Dutt. New York: Dutton, 1910. Bhagavad Gita (Sir Edwin Arnold translation) Harsha-carita of Bana (full 1897 E. B. Cowell and F. W Thomas translation) Religious Documents and Texts

The Dhammapada (complete 1881 F. Max Müller translation)
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