{"title":"Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir, by Hamsa Stainton","authors":"Luther Obrock","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06304006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06304006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":"63 1","pages":"395-399"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47333101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Buddhist Indus Script and Scriptures: On the so-called Bhaikṣukī or Saindhavī Script of the Sāṃmitīyas and their Canon, by Dragomir Dimitrov","authors":"R. Salomon","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06304007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06304007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":"63 1","pages":"400-407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06304007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44511019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brahmanical Theology and a Buddhist Text","authors":"B. Shults","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06304001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06304001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Tevijja Sutta is an early Buddhist text notable for the way it addresses a problem in Brahmanical theology. Many have studied or cited the Tevijja Sutta, but for various reasons scholars have had trouble describing the problem that the sutta addresses. This article reviews some key developments in the modern academic study of the Tevijja Sutta and proposes a solution to interpretive difficulties associated with the text. The proposed solution leads to a more contextualized reading of the Tevijja Sutta and sheds light on Brahmins and Brahmanical theology in the early Buddhist period.","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":"63 1","pages":"307-334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06304001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47319311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mahāyāna Sūtras in Khotan","authors":"Ruixuan Chen, Diego Loukota","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06303001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06303001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The present paper continues a serial article dealing with the identifications of sources for Chapter 6 of the Book of Zambasta, a Mahāyāna Buddhist poem in Khotanese. The first installment of this serial article was published in 2018 by the same authors in this journal. In this installment, we report on new identifications made in the interim, and offer a detailed analysis of four additional identified quotations, underlining their significance in historical and cross-cultural perspective.","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06303001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48951108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Resurgent Interest in “Hindu Fiction”","authors":"J. Silk","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06303002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06303002","url":null,"abstract":"A review article on Willem Bollée, A Cultural Encyclopaedia of the Kathāsaritsāgara in","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":"63 1","pages":"263-306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45723054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indische Handschriften Teil 20. Generalregister für die Kataloge indischer und nepalischer Handschriften (VOHD II und XXXIII), by Siegfried Schmitt","authors":"O. Hinüber","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06302001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06302001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":"63 1","pages":"195-199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06302001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46536149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Analysis of the Verses in the Tattvārthādhigamabhāṣya","authors":"L. Boer","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06302002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06302002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Tattvārthādhigamabhāṣya, which is an early commentary on the Tattvārthādhigama attributed to Umāsvāti, contains several passages in verse. The inclusion of these verses has not been studied before, even though they are relevant for the discussion of the relationship between the Tattvārthādhigama and the bhāṣya. This article provides an analysis and translation of these verses, including the introductory verses and the colophon that usually accompany this text. Although some scholars regard the bhāṣya as an auto-commentary, the outcomes of this analysis indicate that the bhāṣya was written by a different author. Further, this study shows that some of the verses in the bhāṣya are derived from other Jaina works in Sanskrit that are no longer extant. This suggests that the Tattvārthādhigama was not the only Jaina philosophical text in Sanskrit at the time of the final redaction of the bhāṣya.","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06302002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64462803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The History of the Arthaśāstra. Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India, by Mark McClish","authors":"P. Bisschop","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06302004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06302004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":"63 1","pages":"189-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06302004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41531094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indian Buddhist Attitudes toward Outcastes","authors":"J. Silk","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06302003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06302003","url":null,"abstract":"Indian Buddhist literary sources contain both systematic and casual rejections of, broadly speaking, the caste system and caste discrimination. However, they also provide ample evidence for, possibly subconscious, discriminatory attitudes toward outcastes, prototypically caṇḍālas.The rhetoric found in IndianBuddhist literature regarding caṇḍālas is examined in this paper.","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":"9 1","pages":"128-187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06302003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41306392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Copper Plates of Helagupta","authors":"R. Salomon","doi":"10.1163/15728536-06301006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06301006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The article presents a new edition, translation, and interpretation of the inscription, which was previously published by H. Falk in 2014, of the otherwise unknown Buddhist patron Helagupta (helaüta). The inscription, datable to the latter half of the first century CE, is recorded on five copper plates and is the second longest one known in Kharoṣṭhī script/Gāndhārī language. This edition proposes several new readings and interpretations as well as discussing its cultural implications for issues such as the performance of ancestral rituals by Buddhists, and Buddhological ramifications such as the concept of “brahma merit” (Gāndhārī bramo puṇyo) and the contemporary understanding of variant forms of titles of the Buddha.","PeriodicalId":43180,"journal":{"name":"INDO-IRANIAN JOURNAL","volume":"63 1","pages":"3-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15728536-06301006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48218080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}