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050 4 $aPK119.5$b.D56 2020
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100 1 $aDimitrov, Dragomir.
245 14 $aThe Buddhist Indus script and scriptures :$bon the so-called Bhaiksuki or Saindhavi script of the Sammitiyas and their Canon /$cDragomir Dimitrov.
264 1 $aWiesbaden :$bHarrassowitz Verlag,$c2020.
300 $axvii, 253 pages :$billustrations, 1 map ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aStudien zur Indologie,$x2192-1717 ;$vBand 7
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-242) and index.
520 8 $aThe Buddhist Indus script (Sindhulipi or Saindhav?) refers to an Indian script with ?arrow-headed? characters which the British Indologist Cecil Bendall (1856?1906) noticed for the first time in a twelfth-century manuscript, and which later scholars tentatively called ?Bhaik?uk??. With the help of some Tibetan sources it is actually possible not only to establish its original name, i.e. ?Saindhav??, but also to prove a direct connection between this script and the Saindhava monks or the S??mit?yas. Despite the importance of this Buddhist school, until recently its original canonical literature was considered to have been lost.0Dragomir Dimitrov presents now information about the unexpected discovery of several Indian manuscripts written in Saindhav? script and offers a new analysis of the Old Bengali codex unicus of the so-called Patna Dharmapada, which should rather be known now as the Saindhav? Dharmapada. This study proves that in fact a number of original canonical texts of the S??mit?yas and some of their post-canonical works have survived. The texts are written in a Middle Indian language which it is suggested here to call ?Saindhav??. The better understanding of the close link between the S??mit?yas/Saindhavas, the Saindhav? language, and the Saindhav? script permits to fill some glaring gaps in Buddhist studies and Indian linguistics.
650 0 $aIndus script.
650 0 $aBuddhist calligraphy.
650 0 $aManuscripts, Indic.
830 0 $aVeröffentlichungen der Fächergruppenkommission für Außereuropäische Sprachen und Kulturen : Studien zur Indologie.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPK119.5$i.D56 2020g