The archaeology and epigraphy of Indus writing /
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'The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing' is a detailed examination of the Indus script. It presents new analysis based on an expansive text corpus using revolutionary analytical techniques developed specifically for the purpose of deciphering the Indus script. This exploration of Indus writing examines the structure of Indus text at a level of detail that has never been possible before.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784910471 (PDF ebook) :
The archaeology and epigraphy of Indus writing /
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'The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing' is a detailed examination of the Indus script. It presents new analysis based on an expansive text corpus using revolutionary analytical techniques developed specifically for the purpose of deciphering the Indus script. This exploration of Indus writing examines the structure of Indus text at a level of detail that has never been possible before.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784910471 (PDF ebook) :
Trading encounters : from the Euphrates to the Indus in the Bronze Age /
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One folded map inserted at end; another on front lining papers.
Originally published: Encounters, the westerly trade of the Harappa civilization. Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1981.
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Jawaharlal Nehru University). :
xvii, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-381) and index. :
0195666038
Art of the first cities : the third millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus /
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Catalog of an exhibition being held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 8 to Aug. 17, 2003. :
xxiv, 540 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-523) and indexes. :
0300098839 (Yale)
1588390438 (hc.)
1588390446 (pbk.)
Early Buddhist transmission and trade networks mobility and exchange within and beyond the northwestern borderlands of South Asia /
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This exploration of early paths for Buddhist transmission within and beyond South Asia retraces the footsteps of monks, merchants, and other agents of cross-cultural exchange. A reassessment of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources reveals hisorical contexts for the growth of the Buddhist saṅgha from approximately the 5th century BCE to the end of the first millennium CE. Patterns of dynamic Buddhist mobility were closely linked to transregional trade networks extending to the northwestern borderlands and joined to Central Asian silk routes by capillary routes through transit zones in the upper Indus and Tarim Basin. By examining material conditions for Buddhist establishments at nodes along these routes, this book challenges models of gradual diffusion and develops alternative explanations for successful Buddhist movement.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004194588 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
When the Goddess was a Woman Mahabharata Ethnographies-- Essays by Alf Hiltebeitel. Volume 2.
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Explicitly acknowledging its status as a strī-śūdra-veda (a Veda for women and the downtrodden), the Mahābhārata articulates a promise to bring knowledge of right conduct, fundamental ethical, philosophical, and soteriological teachings, and its own grand narrative to all classes of people and all beings. Hiltebeitel shows how the Mahābhārata has more than lived up to this promise at least on the ground in Indian folk traditions. In this three-part volume, he journeys over the overlapping terrains of the south Indian cults of Draupadī (part I) and Kūttāṇṭavar (part II), to explore how the Mahābhārata continues to be such a vital source of meaning, and, in part III, then connects this vital tradition to wider reflections on prehistory, sacrifice, myth, oral epic, and modern theatre. This two volume edition collects nearly three decades of Alf Hiltebeitel's researches into the Indian epic and religious tradition. The two volumes document Hiltebeitel's longstanding fascination with the Sanskrit epics: volume 1 presents a series of appreciative readings of the Mahābhārata (and to a lesser extent, the Rāmāyaṇa), while volume 2 focuses on what Hiltebeitel has called "the underground Mahābhārata," id est, the Mahābhārata as it is still alive in folk and vernacular traditions. Recently re-edited and with a new set of articles completing a trajectory Hiltebeitel established over 30 years ago, this work constitutes a definitive statement from this major scholar. Comprehensive indices, cross-referencing, and an exhaustive bibliography make it an essential reference work. For more information on the first volume please click here .
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004216228 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.