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Auteur(s) : Dimitrov, Dragomir (1973-....)
Titre(s) : The Buddhist Indus Script and Scriptures [Texte imprimé] : on the so-called Bhaikṣukī or Saindhavī Script of the Sāṃmitīyas and their Canon / Dragomir Dimitrov
Publication : Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (253 p.) : Illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection : Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz. Veröffentlichungen der Fächergruppenkommission
für Außereuropäische Sprachen und Kulturen. Studien zur Indologie ; Band 7
Lien à la collection : Veröffentlichungen der Fächergruppenkommission für außereuropäische Sprachen und Kulturen.
Studien zur Indologie
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 221-242. Index
"The Buddhist Indus script (Sindhulipi or Saindhavi) refers to an Indian script with
"arrow-headed" characters which the British Indologist Cecil Bendall (1856-1906) noticed
for the first time in a twelfth-century manuscript, and which later scholars tentatively
called "Bhaikṣuki". With the help of some Tibetan sources it is actually possible
not only to establish its original name, i.e. "Saindhavi", but also to prove a direct
connection between this script and the Saindhava monks or the Sammitiyas. Despite
the importance of this Buddhist school, until recently its original canonical literature
was considered to have been lost. Dragomir Dimitrov presents now information about
the unexpected discovery of several Indian manuscripts written in Saindhavi script
and offers a new analysis of the Old Bengali codex unicus of the so-called Patna Dharmapada,
which should rather be known now as the Saindhavi Dharmapada. This study proves that
in fact a number of original canonical texts of the Sa?mitiyas and some of their post-canonical
works have survived. The texts are written in a Middle Indian language which it is
suggested here to call "Saindhavi". The better understanding of the close link between
the Sammitiyas/Saindhavas, the Saindhavi language, and the Saindhavi script permits
to fill some glaring gaps in Buddhist studies and Indian linguistics."
Sujet(s) : Alphabet bhaiḳsukī
Saṁmatīya
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783447113854 (rel.). - ISBN 9783447199827 (erroné). - ISBN 3447199822 (erroné)
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