Selected articles on the history of ancient India = Ausgewählte kleine schriften zur geschichte des alten Indien / Michael Witzel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Witzel, Michael, 1943- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis ; Bd. 23.

Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis ; Band 23

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

India--History--To 324 B.C.

India.

India--History--324 B.C.-1000 A.D.

Physical Description:

906 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Ausgewählte kleine schriften zur geschichte des alten Indien

Place of Publication:

Halle (Saale) : Universitatsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, [2023]

Language Note:

Text in English and German.

Contents:

Zur Geschichte der Rājopādhyāyas von Bhaktapur

On the history and the present state of Vedic tradition in Nepal

On the location of the Licchavi capital of Nepal

Early Eastern Iran and the Atharvaveda

Regionale und überregionale Faktoren in der Entwicklung vedischer Brahmanengruppen im Mittelalter (Materialien zu den vedischen Schulen, 5)

The coronation rituals of Nepal. With special reference to the coronation of King Birenda (1975)

The realm of the Kurus : origins and development of the first state in India

On Indian historical writing : the role of the Vaṃśāvalīs

Review : Swati Datta (neé Sen Gupta), Migrant Brāhmaṇas in northern India. Their settlement and general impact c. A.D. 475-1030. Delhi (Motilal Banarsidass) 1989, XV, 270

Early Sanskritization. Origins and development of the Kuru state

Little dowry, no satī. The lot of women in the Vedic period

Early Indian history : linguisitc and textual parametres. The problem

Ṛgvedic history : poets, chieftens and politics

Autochthonous Aryans? The evidence from Old Indian and Iranian texts

Medieval Veda tradition as reflected in Nepalese manuscripts

[with Steve Farmer and Richard Sproat], The collapse of the Indus-Script thesis : The myth of the literate Harappan civilization

Brahmanical reactions to foreign influencers and to social and religious change

The Kashmiri Paṇḍits : their early history

Moving targets? Texts, language, archaeology, and history in the late Vedic and early Buddhist periods

Gandhāra and the formation of the Vedic and Zoroastrian canons

Iranian migration

Beyond the flight of the falcon : early 'Aryans' within and outside India.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783869772554

3869772557

OCLC:

1416829561