Indo-Scythian Studies
Being Khotanese Texts Volume VII

A discussion of the form, provenance and identity of the people included in the Khotan Saka documents of Central Asia.

H. W. Bailey (Author)

9780521118736, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 August 2009

164 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 0.9 cm, 0.24 kg

For some fifty years Sir Harold Bailey has studied and interpreted the northern area of Indian Buddhist culture in the Khotan Saka documents of Central Asia dated between the fifth and tenth centuries AD. In this volume the author discusses the form, provenance and identity of the peoples known to the Court of the Kingdom of Khotan and included within the Khotanese texts. Links are made with the languages, literatures and history of Asia, stretching from China to the Middle East. The Khotan Saka documents demonstrate the development of Indian Buddhist culture within Central Asia, and beyond. This volume of Khotanese texts documents and interprets the historical contacts of the peoples of ancient north-west China and of Sin Kiang before the dominance of the Turks.

Prologus
Bibliography
List of abbreviations
1. Argi and Kuči
2. Cimuda
3. Cimgga
4. Dŭm
5. Erma
6. Hara
7. Hinduva
8. Huna
9. Hve:hvu:ra
10. Kaspära
11. Kharoštrī
12. Khyesa
13. Kirkut
14. Pruśavā
15. Saka
16. Sūlī
17. Supīya
18. Svarnagotra
19. Ttamgāta
20. Ttāmhatta
21. Ttaśīka
22. Ttattara
23. Ttūlīsa
24. Ttūrka
25. Gara
Epilogus
Index.

Subject Areas: Educational: English language & literacy [YQC]