Hello Steve, Here is the footnote from von Hinueber, 1990 [Der Beginn der Schrift und fruehe Schriftlichkeit in Indien] p18 fn 36: Zur Problematik vermuteter...
[Mod's note: way too many threads open and ongoing at this moment! Let me reply to a few points only that seem important, from my perspective -- now that I...
Hello Trudy Would you kindly supply dates for the Parthians........especially the Buddhist translator, if you have anything........how do we know that a royal...
Dear John, Does your Library possess A. Gruenwedel's _Alt-Kutscha_ (Berlin 1920)? If yes, I'd be very much grateful, if you also copied and posted the picture...
Dear George and Michael -- Thanks for the further notes on Bronkhorst 1982 -- which I add to our ever growing file of (what?) maybe 200+ pages now on different...
Joanna, Glad you asked; this gives me a chance to plug my old (1987) book on Parthian period art in Iran :-) Dates: Dealing with the Parthian period is a bit...
http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/indrhino.htm Joanna K. ... From: Nilima Chitgopekar To: Indo-Eurasian_research@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 30,...
Dear Unicorn Lovers, Inspired by Nancy Reagan, I suggest that whenever the urge hits, "JUST SAY NO" to more unicorn discussions. The Indus unicorn motif has...
hello Joanna, Just an easy accessible internet resource for Buddhism in Iran and pre-Islamic Iran in general: the freely-accessible online version of the...
Dear Dagmar, Trudy, and Joanna, In regard to your recent posts: at some point in the relatively near future, though not immediately, we hope to explore at...
[Dear Joanna -- the image uploaded is in fact high resolution. You may have just downloaded the thumbnail low-res or the mid-sized image by error. To get to...
Please consider enabling us to use HTML on this list. It must be possible with yahoo groups because I'm on aother list that can use it. The reason for my...
Hi Dagmar, Thanks for this and for reading my mind :) I hasten to look up things like mad. I have asked before why we cannot have Mary Boyce on this list. She...
1019
Victor Mair
vmair@...
Jul 1, 2005 11:13 pm
Dear Artur, DIACRITICALS OMITTED Thank you for your good questions. The sources I give are __Mulasarvastivadavinayaksudrakavastu__ (following the...
Thanks John Huntington and Panjak Tandon for your very clear and interesting comments. John, I think Panjak's remarks about the non-introduction of Achaemenid...
Dear Victor, It's fantastic how Tibetan and Chinese texts love to multiply objects and ornamentalize events. Now, "vat" filled with warm oil seems to appear in...
Dear Mark and interestedList members: Mark wrote: John, I think Panjak's remarks about the non-introduction of Achaemenid coinage into their Indic provinces...
... Artur and Victor, For what it's worth, in the RAmAyaNa (2.60.12, 14), when king Dazaratha dies, he is placed in a taila-droNI, an oil vat/tub. Luis ...
... Dear Luis, Not only Dasharatha. Also in 7.66.2-3. When an old brahman arrives at Rama's carrying the dead body of his son, Rama orders Lakshmana to place...
From: Artur Karp To: Indo-Eurasian_research@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 7:07 PM Subject: Re: [Indo-Eurasia] The Ajatshatru story painting Dear...
[Mod.'s note: re: the late Prof. Emmerick and Iranian/Central Asian Buddhism, it may be useful to contact his former student, Prof. Duan Qing, Peking...
... cuneiform-inscribed items that found their way to NW Iran in the second mill BCE. These were usually things like cylinder seals, vases of colored stone,...
Thanks, Mark, for your discussion of the Arsacides and other Iranian dynasties. Just a small point: nations and tribes apart, the IDEA of an Iranian entity is...
Thanks Dagmar and Michael for the references on Iranian Buddhism; also other references Joanna sent off-List. I'll contact these people and try to pull...
Dear John, Mark, and others: While I side with John that the absence of evidence is just that: the absence of evidence (in other words: if there is no securely...
Dear List, As many of you will know, the 2005 meeting of the European Association of South Asian Achaeologists meets at the British Museum next week, July 4-8....
Leaving archaeology aside for the moment, it is important to note that the Old Indian terminology for coins is ... Persian. We have kaarSaapaNa, from kaarSa...
