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Soft cover. Condition: New. The city of Varanasi in North India is one of the most sacred Hindu places. Its unique location on the banks of the Ganga adds to its special claims of holiness. These claims found expression in an extensive body of literature called Mahatmyas, texts composed in Sanskrit with the specific aim of promoting the greatness (mahatmya) of the town through the narration of tales of origin of individual sites. The present study presents a little-known Varanasimahatmya which has survived in a unique compendium of such Mahatmyas in a palm-leaf manuscript in Nepal. It contains a critical edition of the text with an introduction and annotated English synopsis. In making this material available, this study aims to contribute to an understanding of the location of Brahmanical Hinduism, in particular Saivism.…

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Original publisher's green cloth hardback, light-ble lettering spine and frontcover, 4to: viij, 368pp. With an English synopsis and accompanied by an extensive philological and historical commentary. Very fine copy - as new. Volume 21: Groningen Oriental Studies.

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Hardback. Condition: New. This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, religion, art, and philology in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from premodern South and Southeast Asia. The contributions engage with primary sources (including texts, images, material artefacts, monuments, as well as archaeological sites and landscapes) and draw needed attention to highly adaptable, innovative, and dynamic modes of cultural production within traditional idioms. The volume works to develop categories of historical analysis that cross disciplinary boundaries and represent a wide variety of methodological concerns. By revisiting premodern sources, Asia Beyond Boundaries also addresses critical issues of temporality and periodization that attend established categories in Asian Studies, such as the "Classical Age" or the "Gupta Period". This volume represents the culmination of the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy project Asia Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a research consortium of the British Museum, the British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, in partnership with Leiden University.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, religion, art, and philology in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from premodern South and Southeast Asia. The contributions engage with primary sources (including texts, images, material artefacts, monuments, as well as archaeological sites and landscapes) and draw needed attention to highly adaptable, innovative, and dynamic modes of cultural production within traditional idioms. The volume works to develop categories of historical analysis that cross disciplinary boundaries and represent a wide variety of methodological concerns. By revisiting premodern sources, Asia Beyond Boundaries also addresses critical issues of temporality and periodization that attend established categories in Asian Studies, such as the "Classical Age" or the "Gupta Period". This volume represents the culmination of the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy project Asia Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a research consortium of the British Museum, the British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, in partnership with Leiden University.…

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Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 400 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, religion, art, and philology in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from premodern South and Southeast Asia. The contributions engage with primary sources (including texts, images, material artefacts, monuments, as well as archaeological sites and landscapes) and draw needed attention to highly adaptable, innovative, and dynamic modes of cultural production within traditional idioms. The volume works to develop categories of historical analysis that cross disciplinary boundaries and represent a wide variety of methodological concerns. By revisiting premodern sources, Asia Beyond Boundaries also addresses critical issues of temporality and periodization that attend established categories in Asian Studies, such as the "Classical Age" or the "Gupta Period". This volume represents the culmination of the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy project Asia Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a research consortium of the British Museum, the British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, in partnership with Leiden University.…

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Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. iv, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. English & Sanskrit. Text in French. The city of Varanasi in North India is one of the most sacred Hindu places. Its unique location on the banks of the Ganga adds to its special claims of holiness. These claims found expression in an extensive body of literature called Mahatmyas, texts composed in Sanskrit with the specific aim of promoting the greatness (mahatmya) of the town through the narration of tales of origin of individual sites. The present study presents a little-known Varanasimahatmya which has survived in a unique compendium of such Mahatmyas in a palm-leaf manuscript in Nepal. It contains a critical edition of the text with an introduction & annotated English synopsis. In making this material available, this study aims to contribute to an understanding of the emplacement of Brahmanical Hinduism, in particular Saivism.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 24x16cm, 199 pages., TWO ISSUES. This is a collection of two issues of the quarterly 'Indo-Iranian Journal', Volume 56, no.s 1 & 2  [2013]. each separately bound in original wrappers Each issue contains one to two papers + reviews. Includes:  [no. 1] Beobachtungen zur Turfan-Chandoviciti; Buddhist Sutras in Sanskrit from the Potala; [no. 2] How to Behave Like a Bull? New Insight into the Origin and Religious Practices of Pasupatas; The Heads of Godhead: The Number of Heads / Faces of Yoginis and Bhairavas in Early Saiva Tantras; The Proof Is In the Pudding: What is Involved in Editing and Translating a Mahayana Sutra?; etc.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 24x16cm, 429 pages, FOUR ISSUES. Complete for this volume. This is a collection of four issues of the quarterly 'Indo-Iranian Journal', complete for Volume 60 [2017], each separately bound in original wrappers. Each issue contains two papers + reviews. Includes: [issue nr. 1] Cosmogonic Sacrifice: A Ghost Zoroastrian Doctrine; Royal Splendour in the Waters: Vedic Sri- and Avestan X'arenah; [no. 2] The Vedic Backround of Yaska's Nirukta; Stratifying the Mahabharata: The Textual Position of the Bhagadgita;  [no. 3] Kautilya on Legal and Illegal Cancellations of Contracts; Devotion and Dominion: Ninth-Century Donations of a Pandyan King in Temples Along the River Kaveri; [nr. 4] Avestan aiiara- and asniia- (Y. 1,17; 2.17, etc); Conundrums in Indology II: Zum achtbeinigen Sarabha; The Yogacarabhumi AGainsrt Allodoxies (paravada): A Ritual Violence; etc. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 23x15cm, 405 pages., FOUR ISSUES. Complete for this volume. This is a collection of four issues of the quarterly 'Indo-Iranian Journal', each separately bound in original wrappers, complete for Volume 59 [2016]. Each issue contains one to two papers + reviews. Includes:  [no. 1] Mahadeva in Dunhuang: A Study of IOL TibJ 26; [no. 2] The Rootless Faith of Ajatasatru and Its Explanations in the Abhidharma-mahavaibhasa; A Substantial Change in the Approach to the Zoroastrian Long Liturgy: About J. Kellog's Études avestiques et mazdéennes; [no. 3] The Quest for the Pasupata Weapon: The Gateway of the Mahadeva Temple at Madhyamika (Nagari); Contracted Semivowels in Old Khotanese; [no. 4] Early Strata of Saivism in the Kathmandu Valley: Sivalinga Pedestal Inscriptions from 466 - 645 CE; etc. …